Save metadata for extracted file(s)

[ikrivosheev]

Very often I download the archive of logs from the server. After unpacking, the timestamps of the files are not the same as on the server

[marcospb19]

Can you give an reproducible example?

It would be good to see an example where another tool does this correctly and ouch is doing it wrong.

If I understood correctly what you said, there is no way to keep the time stamps.

[ikrivosheev]

Yes. Simple example.

1. I have two files:

>> ls -alh ~/projects/opensource/pa-notify/
-rw-r--r--  1 ikrivosheev ikrivosheev  180 Nov 10  2020 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 ikrivosheev ikrivosheev 1.1K Nov 10  2020 LICENSE

2. Then create archive:

>> ouch c .gitignore LICENSE test.zip

3. Extract archive:

>> ouch d test.zip
[INFO] ".gitignore" extracted. (180.00 B)
[INFO] "LICENSE" extracted. (1.07 kB)
[INFO] Successfully decompressed archive in current directory.
>> ls -alh .
-rw-r--r--  1 ikrivosheev ikrivosheev  180 Jan 30 14:43 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 ikrivosheev ikrivosheev 1.1K Jan 30 14:43 LICENSE

You can see time of last modification is change.
4. Try to extract with unzip:

>> unzip test.zip
Archive:  test.zip
  inflating: .gitignore
  inflating: LICENSE
>> ls -alh . 
-rw-r--r--  1 ikrivosheev ikrivosheev  180 Jan  1  1980 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 ikrivosheev ikrivosheev 1.1K Jan  1  1980 LICENSE

Work with zip tool:

>> zip test.zip .gitignore LICENSE
adding: LICENSE (deflated 41%)
adding: .gitignore (deflated 33%)
>> mv test.zip /tmp/test/
>> cd /tmp/test
>> unzip test.zip
>> ls -alh
-rw-r--r--  1 ikrivosheev ikrivosheev  180 Nov 10  2020 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 ikrivosheev ikrivosheev 1.1K Nov 10  2020 LICENSE

You can zip save time of last modification for file.

[ikrivosheev]

Archive making with zip: zip.zip
Archive making with ouch: ouch.zip

Other archive type have same problem