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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode
Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2004 11:38:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AezeV-000OXA-Ah@t40.swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:10:49." <c833a9754788589770125e331a74f505@mteege.de>

> I'm try to move my old textfiles from my unix servers
> to plan9 server. In doing so I have problems to convert
> iso-8559-1 to utf-8. First I try recode l1..u1 but the
> result files aren't correct for plan9. Then I try tcs
> from plan9 and the conversion is perfect.
>
> The problem is, that I need a the modification time
> unchanged. This is default in recode but tcs use create
> a new file.
>
> Is there any way to save the modification time without
> a lot of scripting?

cat >cvt <<EOF
#!/bin/rc

t=`{mtime $1}
tcs -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < $1 >/tmp/a &&
mv $1 $1.old &&
mv /tmp/a $1 &&
touch -t $t(1) $1
EOF


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-09 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09  8:10 Matthias Teege
2004-01-09  8:33 ` Scott Schwartz
2004-01-09  9:24   ` Matthias Teege
2004-01-09 14:34 ` David Presotto
2004-01-09 16:38 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2004-01-09 16:47   ` Scott Schwartz
2004-01-10  4:09     ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-10  5:45   ` Skip Tavakkolian

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