[GNC] Moving to Linux

[Peter West]

You can (and should) always check which files will be affected by using ‘ls’ as in my example, before using rm on the same pattern.

rm * will remove files NOT starting with ‘.’


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pbw at ehealth.id.au
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> On 14 Mar 2021, at 1:02 pm, will at theprescotts.com wrote:
> 
> Be careful with 'rm' and the asterisk.
> rm ._* will remove files with names that start with anything followed by '_'
> rm ._ * will remove everything in the directory.
> 
> Will
> 
> On 2021 Mar 13, at 03-13 19:04:16, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:
> 
> If these files are on linux try
> 
> $ ls ._*
> 
> That should show you those files. If there are none you want to keep then
> 
> $ rm ._*
> will remove them.
> 
> 
> 
> —
> pbw at ehealth.id.au
> “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.”
> 
>> On 14 Mar 2021, at 8:38 am, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2021-03-13 13:52, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
>>> …It's probably more correct to think of your non-Mac system as creating these files. Did you publish your Linux file system to the Mac using NetATalk or Samba, and then use the Mac Finder to copy the files from the Mac file system to that published file system? If so, then NetATalk or Samba told the Mac it supported storing metadata, when the underlying Linux file system did not have a way of storing metadata. Thus perhaps NetATalk or Samba created these "._*" files as a workaround for storing the file metadata.…
>> 
>> 
>> On 2021-03-13 13:59, Stephen C. Camidge wrote:
>>> No Jim. I copied my files on my Mac to an external FAT32 (I think it is called) drive and opened it in Linux.
>> 
>> 
>> In that case, Mac system software is probably what handled reading and writing with the FAT32 disk. So, it is probably correct to say that the Mac software created these "._*" files. But the situation is the same: the FAT32 file system doesn't support storing metadata, so the thing bridging the differences between the Mac world and the FAT32 world probably created these files, to store metadata that was attached to the files on the Mac.
>> 
>>   —Jim DeLaHun
>> 
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