From: Sven Schott <sven.schott@...>
Date: 2009-12-01T07:12:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem for Mac HFS metadata?

--0016e64aee81ec015a04799deedb
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

A gem would be great (I personally don't know of any), but you could write =
a
wrapper for mdls at a pinch. It's output is kinda nice (in terms of things
to parse) e.g.

kMDItemContentModificationDate =3D 2009-11-27 07:06:38 +1100
kMDItemContentType             =3D "public.svg-image"
kMDItemContentTypeTree         =3D (
    "public.svg-image",
    "public.image",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.content"
)


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Fritz Anderson <fritza@uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Mac OS X's native HFS file system attaches directory metadata to its
> files. The most notable are the "type" and "creator" codes which
> identify file types without resort to name extensions, and bind them to
> their preferred editors.
>
> My Ruby application needs to examine HFS metadata. I've tried Googling
> every keyword I can think of, but all I get are false positives.
>
> Is there a gem that will do this for me?
>
>    =97 F
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

--0016e64aee81ec015a04799deedb--