2008/6/2 Marieke Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> This was a general question not related to backing up. Suppose I want
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> cp -ip filename filename.old
> vi filename
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> then test and see if something works. Suppose that I don't want to change
> the date on filename.old. I don't think that I should be have to use tar for
> that. I would like to figure out if there is a bug or if I am using cp
> wrong. I am using Kubuntu 8.04 .
OK, if that's what you want to do, then the procedure is:
mv filename filename.old
cp filename.old filename
This preserves the old information, and gives you a new copy to work with.
carl
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