Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Unix command support for AppleDouble files
From: Edan Idzerda (edan@mtu.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 27 1998 - 14:52:27 EST
At 07:00 AM 3/26/98, Alistair Riddell wrote:
>I'm not sure about rm, cp and mv replacements, but there are scripts which
>will check for .Appledouble files which no longer have a data fork
>associated with them because it has been delted or move elsewhere.
Does netatalk create files in .Appledouble when they just have
creator/type info automatically created from them by the extension
mapping? If .Appledouble files only exist for files that *had*
information assigned to them, how does it help anyone if you
mv that file and then delete it's .Appledouble?
If you have users which do a lot of Mac and unix work, it might
make sense to make wrappers for the above, so that:
mv would move the file and it's friends
cp would copy the file and it's friends
rm would remove the file and it's friends
Then you wouldn't even have to worry about running some death
script to check for orphan .Appledouble files. Writing
these wrappers is left as an exercise for the reader. :)
- edan
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