Perl Scripts For Removing Mac Resource Fork, “.DS_Store”, “Thumbs.db”, …

Xah Lee, 2009-05-31, 2009-09-04

This page provides several perl scripts for preparing Mac files to be used on Windows or Linux.

• report_files_resource_fork.pl
• delete_image_file_resource_fork.pl
• delete_macos9_icon_file.pl
• check_bad_filename.pl
• delete_DS_Store.pl

More Info

For some tech detail about moving Mac files to Windows, see: Mac and Windows File Conversion.

For OS X Commands related to resource fork, see: Mac OS X Command Line Tools Tips.