want to write a patch, need help getting started...

[Tim Conway]

--archive will make it match up all the timestamps. owners, etc, along 
with the data.  If the metadata matches, it won't read the files to verify 
content,  so you might want to add --checksum to force reading, though 
that will make it take a whole lot longer.
If you want it to leave owner alone, do individual options instead of the 
--archive bundle... --times will do, though you probably want it 
recursive, too.

Tim Conway
Unix System Administration
Contractor - IBM Global Services
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conway at us.ibm.com






Greetings,

I have two systems that have identical file hierarchies, except the
owners/groups and timestamps differ.  All of the files have the same
checksums.  Is there a way to tell rsync to compare checksums, and if
they are the same, simply change the owner/group/timestamp?  I really
only care about timestamps.  This way, once the timestamps are duplicated,
rsync can operate more efficiently the next time it is run.