-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Peter Newman on 9/12/2007 9:18 PM: > > Add option "-p" to be used only in conjunction with "-r" so that the file > owner, group and file permissions are "preserved" (copied) from the > referenced file as well as the timestamp.
How is this different from the current two-step process 'chmod --ref=reffile yourfile && touch --ref=reffile yourfile'? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6LqU84KuGfSFAYARAg6gAKCNe5JbAoMOijT0lhgN4vE/O+YAzwCgv3Ul uGCrhOZCdiS9W0uLonsHtLM= =qAUv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils