[FFmpeg-user] How to preserve file time

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at CoSoCo.de
Thu Aug 15 19:17:58 EEST 2024


Am 14.08.24 um 21:13 schrieb Greg Oliver:
> 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, ...

Here it is not about deleting the *input* file, it's about deleting the *output* file.

Anyway, it makes me wonder, how ffmpeg CLI could delete input files.
Option `-y` only deletes output files, AFAIK.

-Ulf


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