Hi, I am using Red hat 7.0. If I do cp -rf [dirA] [PATH B] PATH B contains dirA earlier. I find that for some directories though the files n directories r copied , the date does not change. Can you tell me the reason for this Regards Amol _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils