Re: deleting a resource fork
Re: deleting a resource fork
- Subject: Re: deleting a resource fork
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:00:26 -0600
at 2002 07 10, 16:08 -0700, they whom i call Chris Janton wrote:
Quick question: Is there a way to delete the resource fork of a file?
Don't try this at home!
Why not use the wonderfully dangerous shell command of
rm name-of-file/..namedfork/rsrc
that was the first thing i thought of, however for some
reason it seems to delete the whole file -- sort of. here's
a log of the very strange behavior that leads me to believe
using rm on resource forks is a bad idea:
% ls -al test test/..namedfork/rsrc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 garbanzi unknown 3492864 Jul 11 14:44 test
-rwxr-xr-x 1 garbanzi unknown 256887 Jul 11 14:44 test/..namedfork/rsrc
% rm test/..namedfork/rsrc
[note: file "test" disappears from Finder]
% ls -al test test/..namedfork/rsrc
ls: test/..namedfork/rsrc: No such file or directory
---------- 1 garbanzi unknown 3492864 Jul 11 14:44 test
% ls -al | grep test
[note: test is not found]
% rm test
% ls -al test
ls: test: No such file or directory
%
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steve harley email@hidden
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