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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH Corrupts Files? Post 302942741 by gmark99 on Friday 1st of May 2015 12:37:43 AM
Old 05-01-2015
This sounds great! Thanks!

I'm not sure I understand the mkdir command, tho', since I'm talking about creating
a file, not a folder. I'll have to look into this and see how it pertains to files.

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As a matter of fact, let me ask another question. I've set this program up so that it creates files whose unique names specify the jobs their contents describe. In order to retrieve the information inside those files, I have to do a "grep" and awk or sed to extract it. I've just assumed that making a directory with that unique name that contains individual files for each type of information would be wasteful of storage and slower to retrieve. I realize now that I've only assumed this and was not sure.

How would the method of having a thousand or so directories with individual files inside each to contain several types of information compare to my current method of files with those same unique names containing fields to be extracted from those files?

Would getting the file inside a directory be less resource/time intensive than having to extract each piece of info from a single file with that unique name?

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MACSAVE(1)						      General Commands Manual							MACSAVE(1)

NAME
macsave - Save Mac files read from standard input SYNOPSIS
macsave [ - options ] DESCRIPTION
macsave reads a sequence of Macintosh MacBinary files from standard input and writes the files it contains subject to the options speci- fied. OPTIONS
In the absence of any options, macsave reads standard input and silently writes the file(s) it contains in MacBinary format, giving the output files ".bin" extensions and placing them in the current working directory. Subdirectories are created for embedded folders. -3 Write files in fork format (.info, .data and .rsrc files.) -f As -3, but empty data and rsrc files are not created. -r Write resource forks only (.rsrc files.) -d Write data forks only (.data files.) -u As -d, but the codes for CR and LF are interchanged, the filename extension is .text. -U As -u, but there is no filename extension. -a Write files in AppleShare format. This option is only valid if the program is compiled with support for some form of AppleShare. The current directory must be a valid AppleShare folder. -s Write extracted files to standard output in MacBinary format. -l List every file extracted (and every directory/folder created etc.) -i Do not extract, give information only (implies -l.) -q Ask the user for every file/folder whether it should be extracted (implies -l.) -V Gives the patchlevel of the program, and other information. Other options are ignored and the program quits immediately. -H Give short information about the options. Other options are ignored and the program quits immediately. BUGS
As this is a beta release, there may still be some problems. SEE ALSO
macutil(1) AUTHOR
Dik T. Winter, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (dik@cwi.nl) 3rd Berkeley Distribution October 22, 1992 MACSAVE(1)
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