[FFmpeg-user] How to preserve file time

[Greg Oliver]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:20 AM Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at cosoco.de> wrote:
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> Am 12.08.24 um 19:04 schrieb Mark Filipak:
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> > That's a question for your operating system. I can change file times to whatever I want via the TotalCommander file browser. There are probably others.
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> Isn't removing existing output files samely a question for the OS ?
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> But for convenience FFmpeg CLI provides option `-y` for this task, so why not thinking about conveniently preserving file times by FFmpeg CLI?
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> -Ulf

One thing important to note is that if you use linux and bash to
separate commands with && versus ;

&& will not proceed to the following command if the previous command
fails whereas ; will run the command regardless.

In other words if the conversion command failed and you had it set to
delete to input file after conversion, with ; it will delete the file
even if the new file was not created, but with &&, the original file
will not be deleted (or any other commands after the ffmpeg command).