HFS+ and resource forks. Still a necessary evil. At times I find that I need to remove a resource fork from the command line, leaving the file otherwise in tact. To do so, first create an empty file. In this case I’ll create a file using touch called todelete, so I remember to delete it:
touch todelete
Now we’re going to copy this empty file over the resource fork for the file myvideo.mov using the cp command:
cp todelete myvideo.mov/rsrc
At this point, we can clean up the original file we created previously using rm:
rm todelete
