[OS X TeX] Unix expert help needed

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

rsync will strip the resource forks unless you use the -E option.  
Best, Mark
On May 24 2007, at 13:40, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On May 24, 2007, at 5:04 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 24 mai 07 à 07:24, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>>
>>> Certainly not trivial to me. I asked how to get rid of  
>>> the .DS_Store files (among other things --- do you really have  
>>> anything more than the .DS_Store files?) in a directory on this  
>>> list a while back too! I made a shell script I called  
>>> cleands_store that contains
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> # remove .DS-Store files recursively
>>> find "$1" -type f -name .DS_Store -exec rm -f {} \;
>>>
>>> (don't; forget the final return!), made it executable by running  
>>> the command
>>>
>>> chmod 755 cleands_store
>>>
>>> and placed it in ~/bin/ (create that directory if necessary).  
>>> Then, when I want to clean out the .DS_Store files from a  
>>> directory (and any sub-directories, recursively) I run
>>>
>>> ~/bin/cleands_store full/path/to/directory
>>>
>>> and it just gets done.
>>
>> Thanks for that, this script seems quite useful (avoiding to  
>> navigate through the directory hierarchy and erase manually  
>> all .DS_Store files, which is what I had been doing until now).
>>
>> However, .DS_Store files are not the only little peskies to get  
>> rid of: when Mac files include resource forks, these forks appear  
>> as additional "." files IIRC on Windows and Linux. I just  
>> witnessed that yesterday opening on a colleague's Windows 2000  
>> computer a directory created on my Mac.
>>
>> Is there a way of getting rid of these resource files before  
>> creating the archive of a directory, to be used afterwards on a  
>> Linux or Windows computer? Or are resource forks automatically  
>> discarded when creating a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 archive?
>>
>> I imagine resource forks are included in .zip archives, given the  
>> Finder's menu item File > Create Archive creates precisely .zip  
>> archives.
>>
>> Bruno Voisin
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I've completely forgotten about the resource forks. Even `ls -a` on  
> Mac OS X hides them! The folders I've stripped were for Mac  
> consumption so I haven't worried about them. I do remember sending  
> some photos from iPhoto va CD to a friend with a Windows machine  
> and he had to wade through the "extra" files. I think I've seen  
> resource fork strippers out there but haven't looked into which one  
> may be best or how to use some CLI tools to do it---I'll be there  
> is one but maybe it's only with the developer tools.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
>
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