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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting copying a file without changing date stamp. Post 302274204 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 7th of January 2009 03:38:33 AM
Old 01-07-2009
One way to do this is to use the stat command (if that is available your system) to get the modification time of the destination file.
With the touch command you can replace the modification time of the destination file founded with the stat command.

Regards
 

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pcap_set_tstamp_type

PCAP_SET_TSTAMP_TYPE(3) 				     Library Functions Manual					   PCAP_SET_TSTAMP_TYPE(3)

NAME

       pcap_set_tstamp_type - set the time stamp type to be used by a capture device

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcap/pcap.h>

       int pcap_set_tstamp_type(pcap_t *p, int tstamp_type);

DESCRIPTION

       pcap_set_tstamp_type()  sets  the  the  type  of  time  stamp  desired for packets captured on the pcap descriptor to the type specified by
       tstamp_type.  It must be called on a pcap descriptor created  by  pcap_create()	that  has  not	yet  been  activated  by  pcap_activate().
       pcap_list_tstamp_types()  will  give  a list of the time stamp types supported by a given capture device.  See pcap-tstamp(7) for a list of
       all the time stamp types.

RETURN VALUE

       pcap_set_tstamp_type() returns 0 on success if the specified time stamp type is expected to be supported by the capture device,	PCAP_WARN-
       ING_TSTAMP_TYPE_NOTSUP  on  success if the specified time stamp type is not supported by the capture device, PCAP_ERROR_ACTIVATED if called
       on a capture handle that has been activated, and PCAP_ERROR_CANTSET_TSTAMP_TYPE if the capture device  doesn't  support	setting  the  time
       stamp type.

SEE ALSO

       pcap(3), pcap_list_tstamp_types(3), pcap_tstamp_type_name_to_val(3), pcap-tstamp(7)

								  21 August 2010					   PCAP_SET_TSTAMP_TYPE(3)
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