Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
- Subject: Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:45:36 -0800
On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 11:36 PM, Marc S.A. Glasgow wrote:
I am having real difficulties building a path to a file that doesn't
exist yet ... every variation I have tried of this (or on the result
of this concatenation) has resulting in either:
(A) colons being retained, or
(B) spaces not being \ delimited, or
(C) all \ being \ delimited themselves (where space becomes \\[space])
(D) an error in casting the path to a posix file/posix path (because
the file doesn't exist),
(E) keeping it in retained quoted form.
Probably there's some sort of inconsistency in when and how you convert
and quote your path strings. It's best to avoid "quoted form" until
you're ready to pass the string to "do shell script". You may find the
new "do shell script" technote
<
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html> helpful.
What happens if I send a file with a resource fork to mv filepathA
filepathB? Not why I should or
shouldn't, but what actually happens (just loss of the resource fork,
or also corruption of the filing system?)?
Worst case, the resource fork and all Mac-specific metadata (type,
creator, and most of the Finder bits) will be lost. However, that only
happens if you mv something between volumes; if it stays on the same
volume, everything is preserved. MvMac and ditto -rsrcFork don't have
any such problem.
On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 06:34 AM, julifos wrote:
Is "ditto" included in a standard OS X installation, or it does
require jaguar or dev. tools or anything special?
"ditto" has always been part of Mac OS X, and is part of the base
install. (It's in the Essentials package.) You can find this sort of
thing out by groveling through /Library/Receipts -- lsbom(8) will
probably be helpful. (Before anyone asks, perl and sh are both part of
the BaseSystem package.)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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