On Saturday 07 December 2019 05:00:56 am Gene Heskett wrote: > What I'd like to do is ask linux to lie during one more copy operation, > by having a script scan the header of the message for the oldest date, > which likely is the date the message was rx'd here, and assign the > filesystems creation date from that header date. This would have the > effect of restoreing the time differences it is sorting by such that > there should not be 50 messages all sharing the same second in 2017 > creation date from the last copy operation which is the situation now. Hi Gene, Yup, can be done! “grep” will let you find a date. "stat" will let you see a file's Access, Modify, Change, and Birth datetimes. “touch” will let you change Access and Modify datetimes. The first Ref: gives a find loop to use. The second Ref: gives a (possibly risky) method to modify the Change time. Google for grep, tons of examples of that (and tons of ways to do the same thing with it) Best, Michael Ref: https://askubuntu.com/questions/62492/how-can-i-change-the-date-modified-created-of-a-file https://www.shellhacks.com/fake-file-access-modify-change-timestamps-linux/ https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/11/linux-touch-command/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
