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Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
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Re: Help -- going posix space crazy

  • Subject: Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
  • From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:22:16 +0000
  • Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a7
At 1:15 am +0000 22/2/03, has wrote:

Marc Glasgow wrote:

do shell script "mv " & PosixOldFile & " " & PosixNewFile

mv trashes resource forks. Use the Finder.


ditto allows you to preserve the fork. This moves a Mac file from the desktop to the documents folder:

set f to "~/desktop/some\\ file"
set dir to "~/documents"
do shell script "ditto -rsrcFork " & f & space & dir

JD
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