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On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:07:33 +0100 |
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tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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>On 02/18 11:38, Stroller wrote: |
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>> > On 18 Feb 2018, at 08:21, tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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>> > |
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>> > when downloading files from non-UNIX sites, they often contain |
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>> > "poisonoys" characters like '#', ' ', ''' or that alike. |
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>> > With the tool 'detox' those filenames could be fixed. |
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>> > But detox changes the time stamp of the files, which |
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>> > filenames are altered (not all files, which are examined). |
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>> > Is there a way to either get detox not to alter the time stamp |
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>> I think: |
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>> tmpfile=/tmp/foo-$RANDOM |
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>> touch -r "$file" "$tmpfile" |
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>> detox "$file" |
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>> touch -r "$tmpfile "$file" |
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>> rm "$tmpfile" |
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>> It should be trivial to patch detox to do this itself. |
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>> Stroller |
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> |
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>Hi Stroller, |
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>this seems to be an egg<->chicken problem. |
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>I like to wrap detox with a script, which will do you magic trick. |
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>Since I want to get rid of those evil characters (...) in the filename, |
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>which normally intercept shell processing, I want to use detox, |
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>which in turn will be called by a shell script in turn, to do the |
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>time machine magic. To do so, I need detox, to sanitize the |
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>filenames from the evil characters, which normally intercept..... |
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>.....stack overflow....recursion depth failure.....process killed. |
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>You know.... |
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>I am using zsh... |
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>Any idea to get a chicken OR an egg instead of an scrambled egg with |
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>feathers??? ;) |
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Go back one step and reread the manual page. It seems to be there is an |
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option ‘--dry-run’ (implies ‘--verbose’) that can probably be used to |
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store a list of the final new file names. Afterwards you can traverse |
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this list with Stroller’s suggestion (slightly adopted of course). |
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Or you can try other tools which doesn’t use function rename() [1], e.g. |
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perl-rename, and therefore don’t change the last modification time. |
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Or you can go two steps back and save the file(s) to your like when you |
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download it, e.g. with curl (maybe your’re also interested in its |
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‘--remote-time’ option). |
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References: |
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- [1] <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/rename.html> |
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Regards, |
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floyd |
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