Re: Odd Finder Behavior
Re: Odd Finder Behavior
- Subject: Re: Odd Finder Behavior
- From: Peter Waibel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:20:09 +0100
Has anyone suggestion how to savely delete files (data and resource
fork) on a mounted volume
without using finder scripting?
You can use rm.
I do use rm on my own files
but I'm still hesitating to use rm in scripts that are used by others.
The reason why I'm hesitating is that I do not understand what rm
realy does.
The rm man page doesn't tell anything about how rm considers resource
forks
and other volume informations.
I did a simple test on a mounted AFP volume:
$ ls -l test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 peterw peterw 0 Dec 5 10:37 test1
$ ls -l test1/rsrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 peterw peterw 2867 Dec 5 10:37 test1/rsrc
$ rm test1
$ ls -l test/rsrc
$ ls: test/rsrc: No such file or directory
Everthing seams to be perfect.
Even the finder window is updated immediately after using rm
and rm is faster than finder's delete command in applescript.
Is there anything the finder's delete command does better than rm?
I know that those questions about command line tools are
a bit out of topic in this forum but I think there are some
reasonable worries
about the reliability and performance of finder's file commands in
applescript.
Peter
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