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Mac OSX Hacks

Mac OS X For Unix Geek

Mac OSX File System

Archiving and Compressing File

For archiving, use system provided tar located in /usr/bin/tar which understands resource forks and HFS meta-data.

Using ditto, pay attention to following options:

  1. --rsrc stores the resource forks and HFS meta-data with files side by side, while --sequesterRsrc stores them in __MACOSX directory. If you want to share with non-mac user, use the --norsrc option.
  2. --keepParent keeps the parent folder as root directory.

image file may contain a resource fork which makes larger. (run ls -l filename/..namedfork/rsrc to find out and use Rez under usr/bin/Rez to mess around with it)

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