Timeline for Get mac tar to stop putting ._* filenames in tar archives
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| Mar 20, 2011 at 16:58 | comment | added | geekosaur |
(bah, timeouts) Actually, you can if using pretty much any tar but the BSD libarchive-based one (this includes Mac OS X), but may well not be reliable; installing GNU tar is often a good idea. (It is, however, painful. I think you need to list all of them and then pass those names on the command line.) Also, the resource forks technically are on disk, but on HFS+ they are stored in extended attributes; the ._ files are OS X's way of storing resource forks in places that don't support extended attributes.
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| Mar 20, 2011 at 2:42 | comment | added | vy32 | The script doesn't help me. It removes the files from the disk, not from the tar archive. Turns out that I don't have the resource files on my disk. But they're being put in the archive. And unlike zip files, you can't just remove files from a tar archive. | |
| Mar 19, 2011 at 20:25 | history | edited | CreeDorofl | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 19, 2011 at 19:59 | comment | added | Daniel Beck♦ | The script removes resource forks from files on the local disk. They usually serve a purpose (such as changing a certain file's associated application), so this should come with a big warning. | |
| Mar 19, 2011 at 19:32 | history | answered | CreeDorofl | CC BY-SA 2.5 |