On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:56:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Apr 21), Gary Kline said:
> > > You can use mtree to do this.
> > 
> > How, exactly?  In ~/Mail are scores of files dating from 1991; for
> > the most part this Content-Type = "text/html" for rough example only
> > began in the late 90's.  But there are scads of them.  I'm looking at
> > pulling some of the guts from cp (copy -p that preserves the
> > time-stamp [and more]).  If mtree is an easier route, then great. 
> > How would I run this file
> > 
> > -rw-------  1 kline  wheel    306870 Dec 22  2004 ebay.com
> > 
> > thru my filter and have wind up with its original timestamp.
> 
> $ mtree -c -k time -p ~/Mail > mail.times
> 
> $ run filter
> 
> $ mtree -U -p ~/Mail < mail.times
> 

        Yup; your trick does it all; thankee!!

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   Gary Kline     [EMAIL PROTECTED]   www.thought.org     Public service Unix

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