Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 8/6/2007 2:40 PM: > I had at one point copied a large number of files between drives and did > not use the -p and thus the timestamps were all set to the date of the > copy. > > I did not catch this, and deleted the source. So I 'lived' with it and > have since changed many files. > > Well, yesterday I found a good backup of many of those files and I want > to restore them to their proper dates. > > cp -p -u is exactly the opposite of what I want. I want to copy only if > the source files have an earlier date than the destination files. > > The source files are just an old copy on another drive that I found when > cleaning up things... Can you restore the backups, and then cp -u from the existing directory over the restored copy? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!