>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Von Eyben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Thomas> Hi There
Thomas> For those of you discusing the pro's n con's of different *nix CLI tools you
Thomas> might want to read this excellent article on Oreilly for a feature
Thomas> comparison - what happens to the resource forks etc.

Thomas> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/07/02/terminal_5.html

It's too bad they don't point out that the only one of those four
utilities that can truly "mirror" is rsync, and that's broken for
resource forks.

At least, in my testing, it looked like "ditto" *always* copies, wasting
a lot of time if mirroring to an existing archive.

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