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

On 02/18 11:38, Stroller wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
>

Hi Stroller,

this seems to be an egg<->chicken problem.

I like to wrap detox with a script, which will do you magic trick.
Since I want to get rid of those evil characters (...) in the filename, 
which normally intercept shell processing, I want to use detox,
which in turn will be called by a shell script in turn, to do the 
time machine magic. To do so, I need detox, to sanitize the
filenames from the evil characters, which normally intercept.....
.....stack overflow....recursion depth failure.....process killed.

You know....

I am using zsh...

Any idea to get a chicken OR an egg instead of an scrambled egg with
feathers??? ;)

Cheers
Meino