Copy directory hierarchies, create and extract archives. Ditto can preserve ownership / permissions, resource forks and file / folder metadata. Ditto will automatically create the destination folder if it doesn’t yet exist, if the destination does exist and contains files, then ditto will merge them.
A Mac Like interface for the standard Apple BSD Unix command ditto, it is especially useful for adding files to your Poser Runtime folder. Making and Restoring backups. How to Install Ditto for Windows PC or MAC: Ditto is an Android Social app that is developed by Ditto Labs, Inc and published on Google play store on NA. It has already got around 500 so far with an average rating of 4.0 out of 5 in play store.
Unlike cp -R, if the destination folder already exists, the existing contents will be merged with the contents of the folder being copied.
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Examples
Copy a folder quotes are needed because of the space in the folder name. Note that this will merge the files into the destination:
ditto '~/Desktop/work files' '/Volumes/work backup'
To also preserve the Mac resource forks, type and creator codes use (only required prior to 10.4):
ditto -rsrc '~/Desktop/work files' '/Volumes/work backup'
Don’t copy metadata and resource forks:
ditto -V --norsrc '~/Desktop/work files' '/Volumes/work backup'
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Related macOS commands:
Ditto App Windows
cp - Copy files.
dd - Data Duplicator - convert and copy a file.
install - Copy files and set attributes.
mv - Move Files.
tar - store or extract files to an archive (allows symbolic links to be copied as links.)
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