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From: tuxic@××××××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] detox'ing files by keeping their time stamp?
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:47:54
Message-Id: 20180218114734.hqeyy3enerduwr6z@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] detox'ing files by keeping their time stamp? by Stroller
1 On 02/18 11:38, Stroller wrote:
2 >
3 > > On 18 Feb 2018, at 08:21, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
4 > >
5 > > when downloading files from non-UNIX sites, they often contain
6 > > "poisonoys" characters like '#', ' ', ''' or that alike.
7 > >
8 > > With the tool 'detox' those filenames could be fixed.
9 > >
10 > > But detox changes the time stamp of the files, which
11 > > filenames are altered (not all files, which are examined).
12 > >
13 > > Is there a way to either get detox not to alter the time stamp
14 >
15 > I think:
16 >
17 > tmpfile=/tmp/foo-$RANDOM
18 > touch -r "$file" "$tmpfile"
19 > detox "$file"
20 > touch -r "$tmpfile "$file"
21 > rm "$tmpfile"
22 >
23 > It should be trivial to patch detox to do this itself.
24 >
25 > Stroller
26 >
27 >
28 >
29
30 Hi Stroller,
31
32 will try that ! Thanks a lot!
33
34 Cheers!
35 Meino