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Command tools – alisma, blowhole, cintch, cmpxat and unorml – updated

Updates replace an expiring developer ID installer certificate. All are Universal binaries, fully signed and notarized.

February 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

cmpxat, a command tool to compare extended attributes, now a Universal binary

The equivalent of cmp, only it works on extended attributes rather than file data.

September 3, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Command tools updated for Mojave and Catalina: alisma, cmpxat, unorml

Use Finder aliases at the command line, compare extended attributes of two files, and normalise Unicode strings.

June 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

xattred & cmpxat Support

This page is for your support questions and comments on my free extended attribute editor xattred, and my […]

April 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to check that a file really is a faithful copy: Take 2, archives

Comparing the contents of archive files, such as .sit(x) and .zip archives, can be simple, but quickly gets more complex.

August 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

xattred 1.0b8 can now compare the xattrs of two files

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This new version adds a simple tool to discover any differences in extended attributes between two files.

July 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to check that a file really is a faithful copy

Comparing the data in two files is easy, but what about its extended attributes? There hasn’t been a simple tool to do that, until now.

July 28, 2018 Macs, Technology
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