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Recursive Directory Copy (with resource forks) in Mac OS X Jerry Krinock 04-02-2008
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Posted by Jerry Krinock on April 2, 2008, 8:03 pm
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 At least for me, the module function File::Copy::Recursive::dircopy()
seems to not copy resource forks of descendant files when used in Mac
OS X.

Has anyone else noticed this? What's a good method for copying
directories in Mac OS X? Call system() to invoke cp?

Thanks,

Jerry Krinock

Posted by jerrykrinock on April 3, 2008, 11:47 pm
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 After looking into the source for File::Copy::Recursive I see that
this is due to its reliance on the copy() method in the superclass
File::Copy. And all of this is due to the fact that perl does not
have a built-in "copy file" function, which is well-known and seems to
have been discussed by people smarter than me who are discussing
whether or not to fix it in perl 6 [1]. So, I'll just use my own
workaround of calling system() to invoke darwin's cp (which copies
resource forks in Mac OS 10.4 or later).

[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals/browse_thread/thread/1c11f0a67bde34c2/572e317b67a0c8e6?#572e317b67a0c8e6


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