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

[Stroller]

> On 18 Feb 2018, at 17:47, Floyd Anderson <f.a@××××.net> wrote:
>>
>> $ cat t.sh
>> #!/bin/bash
>> TMPF=$(mktemp "/tmp/detox_wrapper.$$.XXXXXXXX")
>> for f in "$@"; do
>>   touch -r "$f" "$TMPF"
>>   detox "$f"
>>   touch -r "$TMPF" "$f"
>> done
>> rm -f "$TMPF"
>
> If I’m not totally wrong, the second `touch` cannot work because the file that "$f" holds is renamed now. That’s what I mean earlier with iterating a list or adapt Stroller’s suggestion.

How careless of me.

A solution is to use `detox -v` and capture the output.

   $ touch '1234[]'
   $ ls '1234[]'
   1234[]
   $ detox -v 1234*
   Scanning: 1234[]
   1234[] -> 1234-
   $

A bit untidy. Really, detox should be patched to check the date and apply it to the new file.

Stroller.