Timeline for Why do I get files like ._foo in my tarball on OS X?
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| Sep 8, 2020 at 9:39 | comment | added | JeremyP |
As of 10.15.x the --disable-copyfile option of mdm's answer is probably better, unless you have a script containing tar commands which needs to be cross platform.
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| May 25, 2013 at 5:43 | history | edited | Lri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The script for deleting extended attributes was too prominent (there is also xattr -c)
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| Aug 6, 2012 at 0:10 | history | suggested | Tyilo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added Mountain Lion
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| May 8, 2012 at 18:19 | history | edited | Jesse Beder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 24 characters in body
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| May 8, 2012 at 14:44 | comment | added | jjeaton | FYI, The export line for Leopard also works for Lion. | |
| Apr 1, 2011 at 22:33 | comment | added | cregox |
That's true Jesse, they indeed have no meaning for other OS'es / filesystems. But the info is there and we can cat or type to see what's inside, at very least. And it's usually something simple text that was manually input there. I wouldn't throw it away for backing up but it can be trash in case you want to distribute something cross-platform and specially if it's there by mistake. Just saying the option to leave them is pretty valid.
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| Apr 1, 2011 at 21:22 | comment | added | Jesse Beder | @Cawas, the problem was that they showed up in the tarball, which I was then distributing cross-platform, and they have no meaning on a non-Apple operating system. | |
| Apr 1, 2011 at 17:58 | comment | added | cregox | Another option is to let them be. It's a small print size and info that you're throwing away. It also only annoys who wants to see them and not get to learn what they mean. Those are not like freaking thumbnails (that do take considerable space) or Finder's DS crap (that's only good to finder) and if they exist is usually because they have relevant data. | |
| Jun 18, 2010 at 15:14 | comment | added | Georg Schölly |
Instead of exporting this variable to the whole system you can also use env COPYFILE_DISABLE tar -cf archive.tar my_folder/.
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| Dec 8, 2009 at 5:43 | vote | accept | Jesse Beder | ||
| Oct 27, 2009 at 1:40 | comment | added | Jonathan Leffler | I have GNU tar 1.15.1 by default on MacOS X 10.5.8 (Leopard). The latest version from GNU is 1.22 (March 2009). Downloaded and built: it does not appear to have '--no-xattrs' when built on MacOS X. | |
| Oct 27, 2009 at 1:21 | history | edited | Jesse Beder | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 27, 2009 at 1:12 | history | answered | Jesse Beder | CC BY-SA 2.5 |