Extract a zip and bake original sort order as Finder comments and last modified date

extract-and-bake-order.sh

#!/bin/bash

# by Matt Sephton @gingerbeardman

# dependencies: p7zip, pipx, osxmetadata

# $ brew install p7zip
# $ brew install pipx
# $ pipx install osxmetadata
# check your PATH and confirm operation

# get base of filename
BASE=$(basename "$1" .zip)

# get files in zip order, use 7z to respect character encodings
FILES=$(7z l -slt -ba "$1" | grep "Path" | sed 's/Path \= //g;')

# prepare timestamps
DATESTAMP=$(date -r "$1")
TOUCHSTAMP=$(date -jf "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "$DATESTAMP" +"%Y%m%d%H%M.%S")

# unzip and only show interesting lines of output
7z x "$1" -aoa -o"$BASE" | grep "[th]ing"

# set counters
COUNTER=1

## loop through file list
echo "$FILES" | while read f
do
  # show progress
  echo "Baking order $COUNTER: $f"
  
  # bake order
  osxmetadata -s findercomment "$COUNTER" "$BASE/$f"	# finder comment
  touch -t $(echo "scale=2;$TOUCHSTAMP - $COUNTER/100" | bc -l) "$BASE/$f"	# last modified

  # inc counter
  COUNTER=$((COUNTER+1))
done

Nice one Matt!

@aonez 🙌