Carl Lowenstein wrote:
What evidence do you have that "cp -p" is not preserving the time/date
information?
Every file has three associated dates.
When it was last accessed (atime)
When it was last modified (mtime)
When its status was last changed (ctime)
My experiments with "cp -p" indicate that this command preserves the mtime.
It changes the atime of the source, since the source has just been
accessed, and copies the old atime of the source to the destination.
(preserving it)
The ctime of the destination is different, because the destination
file has a new status, namely it now exists.
The command "ls -l" with no other qualifying flags displays the mtime.
For perhaps more than you wanted to know, look at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stat_(Unix)>
carl
OK. I have to fix my alias for ll. It has more than the -l flag.
Marieke
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