Re: Preserving ONLY modification times & access times for "scp"

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 09/01/05

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To: alexansp@us.ibm.com

    alexansp@us.ibm.com wrote:
    > If one uses the "-p" flag (with scp), it will preserve modification
    > times, access times, and modes from the original file. Is there a way to
    > ONLY preserve modification times & access times, but NOT attempt to
    > preserve modes & ownership from original file?
    [...]
    > SSH Version: OpenSSH_3.8p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004

    No, unless you're prepared to modify the code. rsync -t can do it, and
    can run over ssh. 

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