Create Useless Archive

Andrew Brown andrew.brown at c18.net
Wed May 9 08:07:37 PDT 2007


On 9 May 2007, at 16:06, Shawn Erickson wrote:

> On May 8, 2007, at 3:53 AM, Andrew Brown wrote:
>
>> I just used it to try and open the zip created by the Apple  
>> utility, which I shall now take great pleasure in turning off.  
>> Disks are cheaper than rescue operations.
>
> Are you blaming Mac OS X provided archive tool for file corruption  
> of some sort?

No, of course not, I had left the terrace door open and the pixies  
must have slipped in and messed things up...

Many thanks to all who pointed me towards find rather than ls, which  
worked perfectly in building the scripts to move and rename 13000 files.

AB


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