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Subject: Re: Update files without changing <DateStamp>?
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:48:34 +0000 (UTC)
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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.

~:/:ls -l fileToEdit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162018 2015-08-05 17:01 fileToEdit

/:touch -r fileToEdit fileToEdit.timestamp pico  fileToEdit
  Fails to start editot

/:pico  fileToEdit
  Starts editor

/:touch -r fileToEdit.timestamp fileToEdit rm fileToEdit.timestamp
/:ls -l fileToEdit*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162018 2015-08-05 17:01 fileToEdit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 2015-08-05 17:01 fileToEdit.timestamp

Perhaps the the one, one-liner is a two-command ?