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Jolly Roger  
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 More options Apr 30 2008, 7:31 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Jolly Roger <jollyro...@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:31:33 -0500
Local: Wed, Apr 30 2008 7:31 pm
Subject: Re: PackageMaker corrupting files?
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In article <uce-D1A7D1.14025630042...@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>,
 Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:

> In article
> <fca95fa1-468e-449c-8b99-fd3acd46e...@y18g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
>  "mattdor...@gmail.com" <mattdor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm having some major problems with PackageMaker and I have some clues
> > that might help figure out what's going on. I have an app I created
> > from an Applescript, I saved it as an application. Using "Get Info" in
> > Finder tells me that it's 60 KB. Using Terminal "ls -l" tells me that
> > the exact same app is 13780 bytes large... that's the first strange
> > part

> ls doesn't show you the size of the resource fork.

True in this case, but note that you can append /rsrc to any filename to
view the resource fork of the file. Enter this single-line command to
see it in action:

find ~/Library/Preferences -exec ls -l '{}/rsrc' \; 2> /dev/null | awk
'{print $5, $9}' | grep -v ^0

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