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Stop Mac OS X creating hidden files when using the tar command

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Last week I found something quite frustrating with the tar command on Mac OS X, it likes to put hidden files into archives when you tar them up, it doesn’t give you any warning, just does it.

Creating a tar, and then having a look at its contents, you’ll see something like this :

JamesMac:staging-area JElsey$ tar -tf MyApplication.tar.gz 
src/
src/._MyApplication.cmd
src/MyApplication.cmd
src/._MyApplication.properties
src/MyApplication.properties
src/lib/
src/lib/._anExternalJar.jar
src/lib/anExternalJar.jar

Notice the files prefixed with “._”.

You can quite easily stop this, by setting the following environment variable (I prefer to set this up in the bashrc_profile):

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How to show hidden files in the Mac OS Finder

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Frustrated, that I recently couldn’t find my maven settings.xml file because the Mac OS X Finder doesn’t show hidden files by default, I found that the following can correct that

  1. Open a terminal
  2. Type this : defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
  3. Kill any open finder sessions by typing (note the capital F) : killall Finder
  4. Re open the Finder, and you should now be able to see hidden files.

You can also reverse the above by changing TRUE to FALSE.

Hope this helps

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