[X-Unix] [ANN] unmac

[Eric F Crist]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Stroller wrote:
>
> I had a crack at this a while back, and ended up when I realised how  
> poor my solution was.
>
> IMO you really need to use `file` to check that the files really ARE  
> Mac rubbish.

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> Although I would love someone else to address this problem, I too  
> would be a little reluctant to use a solution that depended upon  
> Ruby, just because I don't know anything about the language. I just  
> really like Bash for this sort of thing, just because it's everywhere.


Bash isn't everywhere, which is why I recommend sh.  Bash is in many  
places, and available almost everywhere, so it's becoming a popular  
scripting tool.

If there is some actual interest in this, I'm willing to code an sh  
script to perform this function.  As I mentioned in my earlier post,  
it's really just an elaborate find command (you can run file via find  
with -exec).  Heck, even perl would be a viable alternative, as it  
comes standard on Macs, *BSD, many Linux distributions, and is more  
available for Windows than sh is.

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Eric Crist