[X-Unix] [ANN] unmac

[Stroller]

On 8 Jan 2009, at 12:29, Eugene wrote:
> ...
> I thought bash was everywhere on OS X --- although I don't have
> pre-Leopard installs to verify my comment.  And I don't know if
> this bash shell script was meant to be run on OS X systems, or
> whether it was intended to be executed by non-OSX systems (e.g.
> Linux, FreeBSD) with read/write access to OS X volumes.

I think that, as a generalisation, but perhaps one that the members of  
this list may tend to feel apropos, Macs are for desktops & free  
unices are for servers.

One may need to access one's files from one's desktop or from the  
laptop, so one stores them on the server, shared by Samba or whatever.

After all, it's only on non-Mac filing systems - in my cases FAT32 or  
ext3, network shared - that these annoying files tend to become a  
problem. So I find it more elegant if the server itself iterates over  
its volumes, looking for files which make no sense to it. One does not  
depend then on the Mac cleaning up after itself, but a cron job may be  
scheduled to run at times when the Mac may be asleep.

Stroller.