[X-Unix] [ANN] unmac

[Xavier Noria]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Eric F Crist
<ecrist at secure-computing.net> wrote:

> I guess I'm assuming this utility is to be run on non OS X systems, since
> those files are useful on Macs.  I may have a flash drive, for example, I
> want to clean up on a Windows box, or one of my FreeBSD servers.  Being able
> to clean said flash drive up from a Mac OS X system would be an added,
> perhaps expected, benefit.

Yes there are several use cases:

* My ebook reader stores files in a SD card, I want that card to be
clean even if I drag & drop stuff from my Mac (that was the motivation
for unmac).

* My coworker uses Windows and gets a zip file built on a Mac. The
creator of the zip didn't use ZipCleaner. My coworker wants to clean
all that junk.

* A friend on Linux receives a tarball or a pax file built with Mac
command-line system tools. She has no use for all that extra stuff.
(Actually I learnt this the hard-way a while back
http://www.advogato.org/person/fxn/diary/401.html)

* I passed stuff to some friend with cp(1), mv(1), etc. via his memory
stick. Now he is at home on FreeBSD and his memory stick has .Trashes,
AppleDoubles and what not.

unmac is portable to cover all these use cases.