Re: Removing resource fork via applescript?
Re: Removing resource fork via applescript?
- Subject: Re: Removing resource fork via applescript?
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:30:36 +1100
on 02/01/2005 12:53, Gnarlodious at email@hidden wrote:
> Entity Chris Espinosa spoke thus:
>
>>> You could take advantage of the fact that the UNIX cp command doesn't
>>> copy the resource fork.
>>
>> No, you can't, because someday it might, and then your script would
>> break.
> Really? How very cool that would be! Because now I am using RsyncX and it's
> a PITA.
>
> So when might this mythological breakthrough happen?
See http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/unix.html
It says: Tiger also features command-line access to Spotlight for searching
application metadata and enables many common UNIX utilities to handle HFS+
resource forks.
That to me sounds like resource forks won't be lost when using certain UNIX
utilities. But I don't know for sure until I get Tiger.
--
Matthew Smith
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