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I have some log files that have been gzipped and then compressed using cpio.

There are a number of log files that have been compressed to the one file.

When I extract them the date of the file when doing an ls -la is today's date (the date I extracted them).

Is there anyway to see the date the individual files were created before they were zipped up?

Thanks.

Well you must be doing something else...
Here is how I do:

Code:

 find . -print | cpio -ocv >~/.arc/"$1".arc; 
   compress ~/.arc/"$1".arc;

the other way round:

Code:

   uncompress ${1}.arc.Z ;
   cpio -icdmv < ${1}.arc ;

It keeps the file ownership and timestamp (on HP-UX...)

Sorry, do I enter all three lines to uncompress?

My logic is a bit different to yours: I cpio to a create an archive-file, then zip it...
So the other way round is uncompress the archive then extract...
The reason was I wrote a script to see the content:

Code:

 zcat ~/.arc/$1 | cpio -cit |tee /dev/null