On 02/18 11:38, Stroller wrote:
> 
> > On 18 Feb 2018, at 08:21, tu...@posteo.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,

will try that ! Thanks a lot!

Cheers!
Meino


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