On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:24 AM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 think we are talking in circles here. When I download a file from a
repository, I would like it to keep its original mtime if possible.
This is the time that is reported by the simple "ls -lt".
I am less interested in the record of when I acquired it. But I could
learn that by "ls -ltc" which show the modification time of the inode,
not of the data.
carl
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