From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T23:47:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Attributing an old time stamp for a new file.

On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:29 AM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Peter Bailey wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I need to read some data from some older files and put that info.  
>> into
>> simple ASCII text files. But, I want those new text files to have the
>> same time stamp as the original files that the data came from. Is  
>> there
>> any way to do that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>
> harp: ~> ri FileUtils.touch
> --------------------------------------------------------  
> FileUtils#touch
>      touch(list, options = {})
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --
>      Options: noop verbose
>
>      Updates modification time (mtime) and access time (atime) of
>      file(s) in +list+. Files are created if they don't exist.
>
>        FileUtils.touch 'timestamp'
>        FileUtils.touch Dir.glob('*.c');  system 'make'
>
>
> -a
> -- 
> be kind whenever possible... it is always possible.
> - the dalai lama

Unless there's a way to specify to FileUtils.touch the value of the  
timestamp, you can use the touch command (if you're on a sufficiently  
unix-like platform):

	touch -r oldfile newfile

...which sets the times on 'newfile' to be the same as the -r 
(eference) file 'oldfile'

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn		http://agileconsultingllc.com
Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com