Blosxom dates entries by file modification times, which really sucks if I want to update a post but leave the time as it is. It may have some plugin or entries file or other gizmo to maintain the modification times of each entry, but I wanted something that didn't make me break my blosxom installation, install something new, or change what I was doing.

So, I just wrapped a call to the editor in a little Perl script that remembers the modification time, edits the file, and resets the time when it's done. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $time = -e $ARGV[0] ? (stat $ARGV[0])[9] : time;

system '/usr/bin/pico', $ARGV[0];

utime $time, $time, $ARGV[0];

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No big whoop, or maybe merely a "Almost cool" use of perl: just something I should have done a while ago.

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brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>

In reply to Edit a file without changing the modtime by brian_d_foy

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