David Pratt wrote: > Hi Ben. I hadn't realize that walk was just giving the file name so the > join did the job just great.
I don't think that deleting the .DS_Store files is the right approach to this, for various reasons: * You're messing with MacOSX's metadata, which is not a nice thing to do to it. * Your .DS_Store may contain info you'd like to keep, such as icon positions in the window. * One day you might want to do this under a userid that doesn't have the necessary permissions. * It might not even work, since the .DS_Store could get re-created in between your purge and creating the tarball. It would be better to just avoid putting the .DS_Store files in the tarball. For example, collect the pathnames of all the .DS_Store files and give them as an exclusion list to tar. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
