NAME

MacOSX::File - A collection of modules to manipulate files on MacOS X

TIGER

As of Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger), most of these operations with resource fork are supported by the ordinary (cp|mv|rsync). If you are looking for psync, you may as well consider using rsync -E instead.

DESCRIPTION

MacOSX::File is a collection of modules that allows you to do what binaries in /Developer/Tools allows you to do directly via perl. You can implement your own CpMac, MvMac, GetFileInfo and SetFile without calling these binaries.

Subroutines defined in MacOSX::File itself

Others are defined in other submodules. see SUBMODULES below.

EXPORT

by default: unlink(), strerr()

on request: $OSErr, $CopyErr

unlink(@files)

Just like CORE::unlink, deletes a list of files. Returns the number of files successfully deleted. In addition to that, MacOSX::File::unlink also attempts to delete '._' files, files used in UFS volume to store Finder attributes and Resouce fork.

$cnt = unlink 'a', 'b', 'c'; # deletes 'a', 'b', 'c'
                             # and     '._a', '._b', '._c'
                             # and returns 3 if all of them are
                             # unlinked

strerr()

Return string representation of File Manager errors if any. See MacOSX::File::Constants for details.

SUBMODULES

MacOSX::File::Catalog    - Gets/Sets FSCatalogInfo Attributes
MacOSX::File::Copy       - copy/move with HFS(+) attributes
MacOSX::File::Info       - Gets/Sets File Attributes (Subset of ::Catalog)
MacOSX::File::Spec       - Gets FSSpec Structure

SCRIPTS

pcpmac     - CpMac reimplemented
pmvmac     - MvMac reimplemented
pgetfinfo  - GetFileInfo reimplemented
psetfinfo  - SetFile reimplemented
psync      - update copy utility, very reason I wrote this module

INSTALLATION

To install this module, first make sure Developer kit is installed. Then type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires MacOS X. Develper kit is needed to "make install".

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright 2002-2003 Dan Kogai <dankogai@dan.co.jp>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.