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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Changing File Time Stamp (Bash Script) Post 302384779 by chj on Wednesday 6th of January 2010 09:37:48 AM
Old 01-06-2010
Changing File Time Stamp (Bash Script) [SOLVED]
I need some help recovering from a "slight" screwup. We just moved 3 TB of data from one RAID Array to another. Low lever archive files. This was done with a regular cp (for some reason) and now we have lost all the timestamps on the files, and we urgently need to get the timestamps back on these files.

We are running Ubuntu 9.10 Server and we have mounted the following

1. /mnt/old-raid ##Old raid from the old server
2. /mnt/new-raid ##New raid on the server

I know we can read out the timestamp on the old server using the command stat -c '%Y' <<filname>>

I know we can change the timestamp of the file, using the command touch -d '<<date>>'

To get from the stat -c date to the input date in touch we need to use date -d @<<timestamp>> +'%d %b %Y %R'

So my question is, how can I create a loop that will list all files in a folder, get their timestamp and update the old timestamp with the new?

Clear as mud?
Last edited by chj; 01-06-2010 at 01:57 PM..
 

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