[Mailman-Users] bin/arch : ctime

[Mark Sapiro]

Rob Lingelbach wrote:
>
>Has anybody ever written a script that would rebuild the html message  
>archives that would also modify the file ctime/mtime back to the date  
>of the message, as retrieved from the list's mbox file?


This script

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import os
import re
import time

import os.path

BASE = '/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/listname'
NRE = re.compile(r'^\d+.html$')
DRE = re.compile(r'^\s*<I>([^<]*)</I>\s*$')

def process_file(pname):
    for line in open(pname):
        mo = DRE.match(line)
        if mo:
            try:
                ptime = time.strptime(mo.group(1),
                                      '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y')
            except ValueError:
                next
            ptime = time.mktime(ptime)
            os.utime(pname, (ptime, ptime))
            break

for dir, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(BASE):
    for fname in filenames:
        if NRE.match(fname):
            process_file(os.path.join(dir, fname))
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will change atime and mtime  for all the nnnnnn.html files subordinate
to the BASE directory to the time parsed from the line

    <I>Day Mmm dd hh:mm:ss TZ yyyy</I>

in the file. It only changes atime and mtime to that time. ctime is
changed to the time that it runs.

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