<div dir="ltr"><div>So don't worry Kristian, it is not you, it is Mac ;)</div><div><br></div><div>For the next time we should use a different prefix, now that we know that Mac is doing something special.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 19:04, Sebastiaan Couwenberg via PROJ <<a href="mailto:proj@lists.osgeo.org">proj@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2/28/24 6:28 PM, Kristian Evers via PROJ wrote:<br>
> I’m on a Mac and they don’t always behave as you would expect coming from a Linux system. For instance, Bas’ tar command doesn’t fly with my particular brand of tar:<br>
> <br>
> $ tar tavf proj-data-1.17RC2.tar.gz | grep '\._'<br>
> tar: Option -a is not permitted in mode -t<br>
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-a is likely a GNU tar specific option. I'm remember cursing grep on <br>
Solaris not supporting -A/-B/-C back in the day.<br>
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`tar tzvf proj-data-1.17RC2.tar.gz` does work on Mac, but it ignores the <br>
._ files, they are also not present after unpacking the archive.<br>
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> Unpacking the file surprisingly doesn’t reveal anything either. You’d think this sort of thing was easy to figure out but here we are. I am not the release manager you deserve but the one you got. Sorry.<br>
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Apparently the ._ files are an Mac thing for extended attributes:<br>
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<a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/282055/a-lot-of-files-inside-a-tar" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/282055/a-lot-of-files-inside-a-tar</a><br>
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Kind Regards,<br>
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Bas<br>
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