Sync Timstamp in Linux

First you have to run something along the lines of:-
find . -type f -print -exec stat -t -c '%y' {} \; > /tmp/original_dates.txt
On the first set of files, the ones with the correct time.
Once that is complete you run:-
cat /tmp/original_dates.txt | (while read FILE && read DATE; do echo $FILE; echo $DATE; DATE2=`date -d "$DATE" +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S`; touch -t $DATE2 "$FILE"; done)
On the second set of files. This will then set their date as the original.

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