touch: does not support --metadata-set #8928
Description
What is the problem you are having with rclone?
rclone touch -M --metadata-set key=val currently doesn't set the metadata.
It currently is not implemented although it should be!
What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)
rclone v1.71.0-DEV
- os/version: arch (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.17.4-arch2-1 (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.25.3
- go/linking: dynamic
- go/tags: none
The command you were trying to run (e.g. rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
rclone master ❯ rclone touch -M --metadata-set potato=sausage TestAzureBlob:rclone/testM
rclone master ❮ rclone lsjson --stat -M TestAzureBlob:rclone/testM --dump bodies
2025/10/30 16:38:11 NOTICE: Automatically setting -vv as --dump is enabled
2025/10/30 16:38:11 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.71.0-DEV" starting with parameters ["rclone" "lsjson" "--stat" "-M" "TestAzureBlob:rclone/testM" "--dump" "bodies"]
2025/10/30 16:38:11 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "TestAzureBlob:rclone/testM"
2025/10/30 16:38:11 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/dougal/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2025/10/30 16:38:11 DEBUG : You have specified to dump information. Please be noted that the Accept-Encoding as shown may not be correct in the request and the response may not show Content-Encoding if the go standard libraries auto gzip encoding was in effect. In this case the body of the request will be gunzipped before showing it.
2025/10/30 16:38:11 DEBUG : >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
2025/10/30 16:38:11 DEBUG : HTTP REQUEST (req 0xc0002fedc0)
2025/10/30 16:38:11 DEBUG : HEAD /rclone/testM HTTP/1.1
Host: rclone.blob.core.windows.net
User-Agent: rclone/
Accept: application/xml
Authorization: XXXX
X-Ms-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:38:11 GMT
x-ms-version: 2025-05-05
2025/10/30 16:38:11 DEBUG : >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : HTTP RESPONSE (req 0xc0002fedc0)
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Md5: 1B2M2Y8AsgTpgAmY7PhCfg==
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:38:11 GMT
Etag: "0x8DE17D2AD2E0D30"
Last-Modified: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:37:54 GMT
Server: Windows-Azure-Blob/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
X-Ms-Access-Tier: Hot
X-Ms-Access-Tier-Inferred: true
X-Ms-Blob-Type: BlockBlob
X-Ms-Creation-Time: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:37:54 GMT
X-Ms-Lease-State: available
X-Ms-Lease-Status: unlocked
X-Ms-Meta-Mtime: 2025-10-30T16:37:54.844773500Z
X-Ms-Request-Id: 9f10675e-a01e-0022-33bb-4979e2000000
X-Ms-Server-Encrypted: true
X-Ms-Version: 2025-05-05
Content-Length: 0
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming child cache item "TestAzureBlob:rclone/testM" to be canonical for parent "TestAzureBlob:rclone"
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : HTTP REQUEST (req 0xc00051c500)
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : HEAD /rclone/testM HTTP/1.1
Host: rclone.blob.core.windows.net
User-Agent: rclone/
Accept: application/xml
Authorization: XXXX
X-Ms-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:38:12 GMT
x-ms-version: 2025-05-05
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : HTTP RESPONSE (req 0xc00051c500)
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Md5: 1B2M2Y8AsgTpgAmY7PhCfg==
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:38:11 GMT
Etag: "0x8DE17D2AD2E0D30"
Last-Modified: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:37:54 GMT
Server: Windows-Azure-Blob/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
X-Ms-Access-Tier: Hot
X-Ms-Access-Tier-Inferred: true
X-Ms-Blob-Type: BlockBlob
X-Ms-Creation-Time: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:37:54 GMT
X-Ms-Lease-State: available
X-Ms-Lease-Status: unlocked
X-Ms-Meta-Mtime: 2025-10-30T16:37:54.844773500Z
X-Ms-Request-Id: 9f106763-a01e-0022-36bb-4979e2000000
X-Ms-Server-Encrypted: true
X-Ms-Version: 2025-05-05
Content-Length: 0
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
{
"Path": "testM",
"Name": "testM",
"Size": 0,
"MimeType": "application/octet-stream",
"ModTime": "2025-10-30T16:37:54.844773500Z",
"IsDir": false,
"Tier": "Hot",
"Metadata": {
"mtime": "2025-10-30T16:37:54.844773500Z",
"tier": "Hot"
}
}
2025/10/30 16:38:12 DEBUG : 6 go routines active
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