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remove OSX resource forks ._ files

Terminal - remove OSX resource forks ._ files
find . -name ._\* -exec rm -f {} \;
2012-05-14 22:25:42
User: silicontrip
Functions: find rm
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remove OSX resource forks ._ files

This command won't delete resource forks from an HFS file system, only from file systems that don't natively support resource forks.

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dot_clean
2010-11-17 03:46:34
User: TonyT
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remove OSX resource forks ._ files

DESCRIPTION

For each dir, dot_clean recursively merges all ._* files with their cor-

responding native files according to the rules specified with the given

arguments. By default, if there is an attribute on the native file that

is also present in the ._ file, the most recent attribute will be used.

If no operands are given, a usage message is output. If more than one

directory is given, directories are merged in the order in which they are

specified.

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rm -f `find ./ | grep "\.\_.*"`
2010-11-16 20:52:33
User: edfuh
Functions: grep rm
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remove OSX resource forks ._ files

Mac OSX creates resource forks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork) for every file, which are extremely annoying when transferring projects over to an Ubuntu server for instance

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