On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > Hello all, > > Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their date/timestamps? > Currently if I use grep, it changes the access time of all files touched, > which causes mutt to lose track of the folders which have new mail (I guess it > looks at the timestamp last modified and last accessed to figure this out). > Occasionally I do want to include the mail folders in my greps, so bypassing > the "mail" directory is not a solution.
whoa. isn't there a difference between MODIFIED and ACCESSED? doing "pager < file" should modify the ACCESSED timestamp, but not the MODIFIED timestamp, right? or am i in the wrong universe? % ls -lt edits.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 will serensof 1280 Dec 28 22:23 edits.sql % ls -lu edits.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 will serensof 1280 Dec 28 23:06 edits.sql % grep xyz edits.sql % ls -lt edits.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 will serensof 1280 Dec 28 22:23 edits.sql % ls -lu edits.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 will serensof 1280 Jan 2 02:12 edits.sql % look under "man ls" for "-t" and for "-u" (and if you're bored and can figure out what 'file status information' pertains to, "-c"). -- See, if you were allowed to keep the money, you wouldn't create jobs with it. You'd throw it in the bushes or something. But the government will spend it, thereby creating jobs. -- Dave Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/ volunteer to document your experience for next week's newbies -- http://www.eGroups.com/messages/newbieDoc
