Re: [gentoo-user] detox'ing files by keeping their time stamp?

[Stroller]

> On 18 Feb 2018, at 08:21, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
>
> when downloading files from non-UNIX sites, they often contain
> "poisonoys" characters like '#', ' ', ''' or that alike.
>
> With the tool 'detox' those filenames could be fixed.
>
> But detox changes the time stamp of the files, which
> filenames are altered (not all files, which are examined).
>
> Is there a way to either get detox not to alter the time stamp

I think:

  tmpfile=/tmp/foo-$RANDOM
  touch -r "$file" "$tmpfile"
  detox "$file" 
  touch -r "$tmpfile "$file"
  rm "$tmpfile"

It should be trivial to patch detox to do this itself.

Stroller