On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 06:40:59PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Thank you, I sort of want the opposite, a way to fool mutt into thinking
the file *hasn't* been modified. I'm editing the file via a wrapper
script and that always changes the modification time even if the file
hasn't actually changed.
I think I will have to change how my wrapper script works to prevent it
copying the file *unless* it actually changes it.
You can do something like this:
#!/bin/sh
fname=$1
tmpref=${fname}.ref.$$
# save mod time using a tmp reference file
touch -r $fname $tmpref
vim $fname
# restore mod times from reference file
touch -r $tmpref $fname
rm $tmpref
