>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> At 7:44 -0400 7/12/02, Erik Price wrote: >> BUT -- this is a little off topic, but could someone point me to a >> resource describing which kinds of files need the special treatment? >> I run OS X only but I have heard that there are still some apps that >> use the dichotomous file structure. This way I know what I -can't- >> preserve with a little "gnutar -czf". Adam> Here's a quick and dirty way to find all files with resource forks, Adam> since gnutar doesn't know from resource forks: Adam> find [targetdir] \( -type f -and -exec test -s Adam> \{\}\/..namedfork\/rsrc \; \) -print That's expensive. How about (since this *is* the Perl on OSX list): find2perl /Dir -eval '-f and -s "$_/..namedfork/rsrc"' -print | perl Much cleaner and faster. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!