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.
This command won't delete resource forks from an HFS file system, only from file systems that don't natively support resource forks.
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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