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11-02-2009

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need help for cp with -p switch

Guys,

I need to copy files from source to destination with datetime preserved

I did it with cp -p <source>/file <destinaltion>/file

But when I do stat command on copied file , it seems the copied file has "change time" modified.

Please guide me in understanding

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