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Install the Linux rename utility
Authored by: cellocgw on Jul 12, '05 12:53:08PM

OK, dumb question: do any of these utilities handle the resource forks or does the user have to "manually" identify them?



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Install the Linux rename utility
Authored by: chris_on_hints on Jul 12, '05 01:24:12PM

not a dumb question.

it will probably not handle resource forks etc, so might end up disconnecting a file from its resource when you rename it, or it might work perfectly well.

i guess you would have to try it to see...



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Install the Linux rename utility
Authored by: peterneillewis on Jul 12, '05 10:29:58PM

The unix commands that operate on files (mv and rm for example) have always handled resource forks under Mac OS X. They operate on directory entires, and despite appearances, there is only one directory entry for a Mac OS X file, whether iot has a data fork, resource fork or both.

Tiger (10.4) adds support for resource forks to the standard unix commands that operate on file data (cp for example).



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