Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:54:53 -0800
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 03:58 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:
On 29/1/02 6:18 PM, "John W Baxter" <email@hidden> wrote:
At 22:36 -0800 1/28/02, Jon Pugh wrote:
Using the ditto command with appropriate flags seems better. (And that
probably can replace the copyFile command.)
Except ditto requires that the executor is root
Not any more. It used to, but ditto was found to be too generally
useful, and they changed it. Also be aware of the -rsrcFork option,
which will preserve resource forks. (Yes, the man page is out of date.
Appropriate bugs have been filed.)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering