Terminal Tip: Prevent Creation of Mac Dot Files

I had no idea until recently that you can actually prevent creation of the ._filename files when using tar (and other commands, I assume) by setting an environment variable. On Leopard, it’s called COPYFILE_DISABLE.

So, put this in your .bash_profile: export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true and you can avoid having to do this.


comment feed And the ensuing discussion…

  1. 1

    Oct 22nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm james

    wow, that helpful hint is a real treasure! THANKS! I should check your site more often. :)

  2. 2

    Apr 14th, 2010 at 11:57 am Scott

    You are officially my new hero. Thank you so much for this!

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