David Brown wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:23:00PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
But gwget is working pretty well. I just wish I knew a way to force new
files written to that directory to be touched with the current
timestamp
(since wget, and apparently gwget, preserves the original timestamp
of the
file from the other computer).
Different tastes for different people. I rather like the fact that
wget preserves the original timestamp, since that is a property of the
original file, not of the fact that I downloaded it at some later
time.
The 'ctime' will tell you when you last updated the file, and it
cannot be set to an earlier time. You can use either the 'stat'
program to see it, or add '-c' to ls, e.g. 'ls -clt' to sort by ctime.
I never really understood what a sticky bit does for directories, but I
was rather hoping something like that could be used to force the current
time on any new files written there.
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