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One more caveat...
Neither the script given nor mine preserve metadata. If you want to preserve ownership and stuff (doesn't matter for me because it's UNIX text files I own, but it could for you), add a p to the tar options (of course, you have to decrypt as root for this to make a difference anyway...). If you want to preserve resource forks and HFS+ metadata, you'll have to use hfspax or the like.
One more caveat...
I'd hardly go so far as to suggest that the necessity to turn many files into a single file (with Stuffit or what have you) means one cannot use PGP. In point of fact, stuffing or zipping a collection of files and then encrypting the resulting archive is quite easy to do, and very effective. Far more so, I dare say, than twiddling with dodgy UNIX shell scripts. After all, with the free Stuffit product and the free PGP product, the process is a simple matter of two drag-and-drop operations. A breeze, and absolutely foolproof.
I disagree...
Um. DropStuff isn't free (well, it effectively is, but you ARE supposed to pay for it).
I disagree...
And for what I'm doing, that shell function (mine is not a script) is pretty much fool-proof.
I mean no offense, but "pretty much fool-proof" is just like "a little bit pregnant." It's also faster That's hardly significant, even if true. We're talking about taking a two-second operation and turning it into a 1.75-second operation. I like UNIX, I'm comfortable with the shell. And furthermore, I work with UNIX and Linux boxes a lot, and it's nice to have my files in a format they can understand. That's fine, but that pretty much moves this particular item out of the realm of a Mac OS X hint and makes it a UNIX hint. Most of the people who use Mac OS X are Mac users, not UNIX users, and your suggestion would not be appropriate for them.
I disagree...
Not wanting to perpetuate an argument, but the hint is in the Unix section of the site. |
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