On 02/18 11:38, Stroller wrote: > > > On 18 Feb 2018, at 08:21, [email protected] 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
