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OSXFAQ Mac OS X UNIX Tip-of-the-Day

Week 104 - Unix Commands Reference IV (11 April 2005)

by Adrian Mayo - Editor, OSXFAQ

Tuesday - OSX Special - Commands for Disc and File

These commands are OS X specific and are not found in other Unix flavours.
(See tips weeks 16 and 18)

Disc manipulation and maintenance.

disktool ... refresh, eject, mount or unmount
(See tips week 22)

diskutil ... repair, journal discs
(See tips week 88)

drutil ... interact with CD and DVD burners

hdiutil ... manipulate disc images
(See example usage in Friday's tip)

cd9660.util ... mount ISO 9660 volumes

udf.util ... mount DVD volumes
ufs.util ... mount UFS (Unix File System) volumes
hfs.util ... mount HFS (Standard Apple) volumes

pdisk ... partition table editor
List all partitions of mounted discs with:
sudo pdisk
Top level command (? for help): L

vsdbutil ... read/write enable permissions on HFS+ volumes

ditto ... copy files/sync folders with resource forks
Option -rsrc to copy preserving resource forks

cpMac ... copy with resource forks
Copies resource forks like ditto. This is part of the Developers Tool and not included in a standard install.

GetFileInfo ... get attributes of HFS+ files

SetFile ... sets attributes of HFS+ files
Sets HFS+ attributes such as Alias, Locked, Invisible

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