> oops. my bad. but... > > atta; man fossil | grep -i atime > atta; > atta; man fossilcons | grep -i atime > atta;
You should have written: % man fossilcons | grep -i 'access time' -a do not update file access times; primarily to ☺ As far I remember, Geoff added this option when he implemented support for USB disk boot in 2011. -- David du Colombier