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using 'mv' is a bad idea
Authored by: subdude on Jul 13, '06 10:53:40AM

'mv' does not respect resource forks (and IIRC, some file meta data). Use 'ditto' instead:

ditto --rsrc src_file dst_file



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using 'mv' is a bad idea
Authored by: wallybear on Jul 14, '06 01:27:43AM

in Tiger mv will preserve resource forks.



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