I have been playing with moving and coping files across platforms a bit recently. Most network file tools don't copy more than just the data portion of a file. This is a rather safe behavior, since most of what moves around the net is just the simple data. But more and more systems are adding extended attributes of one kind or another. Plus the mac has this resource fork thing that usually gets skipped.
All of this just brought up the question of how does one know when a file has these extra bits. I poked around a little and didn't see any tool that came with the OS. (though I might have just missed it too.) So I wrote this.
It is very short and sweet. The archive contains the source and a
compiled binary. I made it a command line tool because that was
quickest, and you can do things like: find ~ -type f -print0 |
xargs -0 extfile -v Which gives you a list of every file in your
home directory that has either extended attributes or resource fork
data.