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How to change the creation and modification date of a file (and preserve them when copying it)?.md

Use the touch command like:

touch -t '1509260825' <path to the file>

This will set both the creation and modification date of the file to "2015-09-26 08.25".

To preserve the creation and modification dates when coping a file, use the -p option of the cp command like:

cp -p <path to the file> <destination path>
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