On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:19:15 +1300, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think that deleting the .DS_Store files is the > right approach to this, for various reasons: [ ... ] > * It might not even work, since the .DS_Store could > get re-created in between your purge and creating > the tarball. > It would be better to just avoid putting the .DS_Store > files in the tarball. For example, collect the pathnames > of all the .DS_Store files and give them as an exclusion > list to tar. If these are both true, then *new* .DS_Store files could be created after I've made the list and before I've made the tarball. Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> "I wish people would die in alphabetical order." -- My wife, the genealogist -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list