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Jun 15th, 2005, 8:24 AM

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Originally Posted by dc6463

works great, but copying the files in OS X changes the date modified for the files.

just use the -p (preserve) option with copy to keep the timestamps

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cp -p `grep -f *.txt -e stringpattern -l` the_dir

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