From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T03:04:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Attributing an old time stamp for a new file.

Rob Biedenharn wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Peter Bailey wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> FileUtils.touch("file1", "file2")
>>
>> What does "t" stand for above?
> 
> it is set to Time.now, but you want to do something like:
> 
> newfile = "#{oldfile}.txt"
> File.open(oldfile) do |o|
>    File.open(newfile, 'w') do |n|
>      # while line = o.gets
>      #   n << fixup(line)
>      # end
>    end
> end
> t = File.mtime(oldfile)
> File.utime(t,t, newfile)
> 
> Of course the inner loop is whatever you need it to be.  The key here
> is to just do the part of FileUtils.touch that you need which is the
> call to File.utime on the new file.  Since you just had to create it
> (and fill it with something), you don't have to create it (the rescue
> clause in touch).
> 
> (I hadn't run across the File.utime before, but I should've expected
> that from Perl's influence.)
> 
> -Rob
> 
> Rob Biedenharn    http://agileconsultingllc.com
> Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com

Thank you all, gentlemen.
These lines are the ones that made it shine for me, Rob:

t = File.mtime(oldfile)
File,utime(t,t,newfile)

because that's exactly what I need to do. I need to grab the time stamp 
for my postscript files and then assign those times to my simple text 
files derived from those .ps files.

Thanks again!

-Peter

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