Re: Given a POSIX Path...
Re: Given a POSIX Path...
- Subject: Re: Given a POSIX Path...
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:06:59 -0500
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Thomas Fischer
<fischer.th@aon.at> wrote:
the major disadvantage of using mv instead of the Finder would be that some of Mac OS X's extras will be lost, like comments and probably other metadata.
AFAICT, that hasn't been true since at least 10.4, probably earlier. The OS X versions of cp, mv, etc. preserve metadata, resource forks, etc.
I don't know if aliases will be preserved.
Aliases to a mv(1)ved file still find the file, yes.
Be aware of the absence of Mac OS X's additional layer of protection, though: There is no Undo, and deleting a file doest put it into the trash, where it could be retrieved.
Does the Finder expose Undo as a scriptable action? I thought that was purely a UI capability.
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Mark J. Reed <
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