It looks to me that you are doing it right. What is the problem?
Also please give OS version and the shell you are using. Also, just in case this is significant (it shouldn't be), are source and destination on the same file system? Use
to find out.
Hi,
In my shell programming, When i copy sym links from one server to another server using rsync it does not preserve time stamp . it showing current time after copying in destination server.the command i used is
rsync -vaR --
How can i preserve sym links time stamp using rsync.
Thanx (1 Reply)
Hi..
i have a source and destination directories & want to copy files from source to destination those files are unique to source directory . And those files are common to both the directory copy source to destination with a numeric increment as extension.
If in the destination there are more... (2 Replies)
Hi
My requirement is i want to copy files from remote server to the local server and also i need to preserve the timestamp of the remote file.
By using scp -p , it is working fine in the interactive call but it is not preserving he file timestamp when i use it in the non interactive scp call... (1 Reply)
Hi
How to copy a file from remote server and preserve timestamp. Please not, i have to pass username and password to connect to the remote server in the shell script.
Can this be achieved with simple ftp ? are there any options in ftp ?
Thanks (4 Replies)
PLAESE CHECK WHETHER THIS SCRIPT WORKS OR NOT.
THIS IS MY FIRST SCRIPT, HELP ME out if any ERRORS are present.
a=0;
while
do
echo "ENTER path"
read path
if then
echo "path found"
cd $path
DateTimeStamp=$(date '+%d_%m_%y_%H_%M')
echo "enter file name"
read file (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to unix programming. I am trying for a requirement and the requirement goes like this.....
I have a test folder. Which tracks log files. After certain time, the log file is getting overwritten by another file (randomly as the time interval is not periodic). I need to preserve... (2 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have the following logfile. Currently time in india is 07/31/2014 12:33:34 and i have the following content in logfile. I want to display only those entries which contain string 'Exception' within last 3 hours. In this case, it would be the last line only
I can get the... (12 Replies)
Hello ,
I am working on AIX. I have to convert Unix timestamp to normal timestamp. Below is the file. The Unix timestamp will always be preceded by
EFFECTIVE_TIME as first field as shown and there could be multiple EFFECTIVE_TIME in the file : 3.txt
Contents of... (6 Replies)
So basically I have a log file and each line in this log file starts with a timestamp:
MON DD HH:MM:SS
SEP 15 07:30:01
I need to grep all the lines between last hour timestamp and current timestamp. Then these lines will be moved to a tmp file from which I will grep for particular strings. ... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
touch
touch(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands touch(1B)NAME
touch - change file access and modification times
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/touch [-acfm] file...
DESCRIPTION
touch sets the access and modification times of each file to the current time. file is created if it does not already exist.
OPTIONS -a Change the access time of file. Do not change the modification time unless -m is also specified.
-c Do not create file if it does not exist.
-f Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on file.
-m Change the modification time of file. Do not change the access time unless -a is also specified.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of touch when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 touch executed successfully and all requested changes were made.
>0 An error occurred. touch returns the number of files for which the times could not be successfully modified.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO touch(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)SunOS 5.10 26 Oct 1995 touch(1B)