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Clear Metadata in Tiger


  • Subject: Clear Metadata in Tiger
  • From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:48:07 -0600

Entity Christopher Nebel spoke thus:

> On May 6, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
>> Well darnit, that means we can no longer use cp to strip resource
>> fork & metadata.
> True, but "cat < /dev/null > myfile/..namedfork/rsrc" will nuke a
> resource fork in Panther or Tiger.

True, but now how do we clear metadata? In Panther the cp command would
clear metadata (creator & type, icon, position, etc) but in Tiger it has no
effect.

How to?

-- Gnarlie


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