Re: Help with "ditto"
Re: Help with "ditto"
- Subject: Re: Help with "ditto"
- From: Randall Meadows <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:29:19 -0600
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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