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Re: Help with "ditto"



On Aug 29, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Dale Jensen wrote:

I sure wish that some of these command line tools had weird names so that google was more helpful.

If I have a file that I've compressed with ditto and navigate to it in the Finder and double click on it, it extracts the file in the same directory, as expected.

If, however, I use NSTask to send "ditto -x -k Resume080622.docx.zip Resume080622.docx" (assuming proper directories, of course,) ditto creates a folder with the name "Resume080622.docx" and then puts the file in that. This screws up a lot of things, as you can imagine. Any idea what I have to do or what argument to pass to get it to extract just the file, not embedded in another folder.

According to the fourth form described by 'man ditto', you are explicitly giving a destination directory, so you're getting exactly what you asked for!


Instead of specifying the file name where you want the output to go (which is wrong, according to the man page), specify the directory where you want the output to go, which should be "." (meaning the current directory).

ditto -x -k Resume080622.docx.zip .


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