On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Randall Meadows wrote:
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 .
Thanks, that fixed it for those singleton files. However, now it
breaks packages (puts the contents of the packages into the directory
instead of into the "package directory".) With the previous
rendition, packages worked perfectly. Aside from tracking what's in
the archive, any ideas on what I need to change to have both types of
files unzip correctly (packages into a same named folder, singletons
into no folder)?
