RE: move all files also with no extension via shell command
RE: move all files also with no extension via shell command
- Subject: RE: move all files also with no extension via shell command
- From: "Jan-Bultereys" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 17:10:55 +0200
- Thread-topic: move all files also with no extension via shell command
yes my script is running for more than a week already (with the mv command) and
for now I don't see any issues..... is this a thing that's going to bite me later?
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> From: Mark J. Reed
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> Sent: Friday, May 6, 2005 17:05 PM
> To: Jan-Bultereys
> Cc: AppleScript Users
> Subject: Re: move all files also with no extension via shell command
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> As long as you're moving files within the same filesystem, the mv command WILL preserve the resource fork.
>
> However, if you're moving across filesystems, mv winds up calling cp behind the scenes, so the resource fork is lost. I think you need to use ditto --rsrc followed by a separate delete step. Which you can combine in a script, of course.
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> On 5/6/05, Jan-Bultereys <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> thanks all for the input.
>
> I have looked at the man pages from ditto but I can not find to delete the original files when files have been moved.
>
> what I want is to ---move--- the files to an other directory and as you all pointed "with" the .rsrc data.
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set mylist to (every item of folder Source)
> ------ Do some actions here -----
> try
> do shell script "ditto --rsrc " & Source & " " & destination & ""
> on error
> display dialog "does not work"
> end try
> end tell
>
> Is there an additional option to delete the source files?
>
> best regards,jan
>
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> > From: applescript-users-bounces+jan.bultereys=email@hidden on behalf of Jake Pietrykowski
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2005 21:56 PM
> > To: AppleScript Users
> > Subject: Re: move all files also with no extension via shell command
> >
> > Load the developer tools... (/Developer/Tools/CpMac)
> >
> > CpMac works well. I prefer ditto --rsrc. rsync also can do the trick.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/4/05 1:52 PM, "Courtney Schwartz" <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah. I've been dealing with them in ditto instead of cp or mv.
> > >
> > > Did I hear something about resource-aware custom versions of cp and mv
> > > for Tiger, though?
> > >
> > >
> > > On May 4, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Marc Rubin wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>> What is the shell command to move every file in a folder
> > >>
> > >> is anyone going to chime in about resource forks (.rsrc) and
> > >> issues with approaching the filesystem through a shell?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
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