Re: comments stripped out by MV or MVMAC shell script
Re: comments stripped out by MV or MVMAC shell script
- Subject: Re: comments stripped out by MV or MVMAC shell script
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:02:28 -0700
On 4/24/05 7:54 PM, "Doughtie, Dan" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Have an applescript with several shell scripts. One shell script successfully
> puts text into the comments field of the file.
>
> Then we've got a shell script that moves the file to another folder. We tried
> MV and MVMAC and it moves the file and handles the permisions but it strips
> out the Comments. Anyone know how to move a file and keep the Comments. We use
> the Comments to tell another system how to handle a the file. We can't use a
> Finder Move because we actually turn the Finder off for reasons too long to
> explain here.
I think you need to turn the Finder back on.
The comments are not stored with the file, but in the Finder's
directory/metadata. The normal way of accessing this information is via the
Finder. Off-hand I'm not aware of any way of accessing this data other than
through the Finder.
Andrew
:)
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