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Tar hints for Mac OS X users: Difference between revisions
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* ._hello.c
They are a special file generated by Mac OS. Most hidden files can be seen using this command from a Terminal (the hyphen-a stands for "all"):
ls -a
If you were creating a tarball of your own code to distribute, you should avoid distributing these extraneous files. The simplest way to create a tar file without these files is to ask tar to exclude them when creating the tar file. So if you would have run this command:
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tar zcvf myproject-0.1.tar.gz myproject-0.1/
instead you need to pass a special set of environment variables to tar. So run it as follows:
COPYFILE_DISABLE=true tar zcvf myproject-0.1.tar.gz
Because you pass the ''v'' flag to tar, causing it to operate in verbose mode, you can see which files will be added to the resulting tarball.
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