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Re: Update files without changing <DateStamp>?

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On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:38:18 +0000, Joe Beanfish wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:48:34 +0000, Unknown wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 18:15:56 +0000, Joe Beanfish wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 05:13:12 +0000, no.top.post wrote:
>>>> When examining these recent/hot files, you obviously want to edit
>>>> some.
>>>> But you don't want to change their <time heirarchy>. New/additional
>>>> files can be <correctly> dated.
>>>> 
>>>> How could I achieve EASILY this.
>>> 
>>> touch -r fileToEdit fileToEdit.timestamp FAVORITE_EDITOR_HERE
>>> fileToEdit touch -r fileToEdit.timestamp fileToEdit rm
>>> fileToEdit.timestamp
>>> 
>>> Put it in a script for ease of use.
>> 
--- snip --
>> Perhaps the the one, one-liner is a two-command ?
> 
> No, your news reader combined lines. When reading code make sure your
> reader is not reformatting. Here's the example again with a blank line\
> between each command:
> 
> touch -r fileToEdit fileToEdit.timestamp
> 
> FAVORITE_EDITOR_HERE fileToEdit
> 
> touch -r fileToEdit.timestamp fileToEdit
> 
> rm fileToEdit.timestamp

Thanks for the <extra script>; we need a menu-system for all the scripts.
Perhaps one-of-my NewsReaders smart-arses lines.
Personally I'm a fanatic advocate AGAINST auto-formatters, and can't
accept that a very competent poster's single-quotes are given as *3-bytes*
by his emacs-system.

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Re: Update files without changing <DateStamp>? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-08-07 11:48 +0000
  Re: Update files without changing <DateStamp>? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-08-07 13:38 +0000
    Re: Update files without changing <DateStamp>? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 01:53 +0000

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