SPLITFORKS(1) General Commands Manual SPLITFORKS(1)

/usr/bin/SplitForks — Divide a two-fork HFS file into AppleDouble format resource and data files. (DEPRECATED)

/usr/bin/SplitForks [-s] [-v] file

Tools supporting Carbon development, including /usr/bin/SplitForks, were deprecated with Xcode 6.

SplitForks takes a Macintosh HFS or HFS Extended ("HFS+") two-fork file and converts it into AppleDouble format, with the data fork in one file and the resource fork and file system metadata in another.

/usr/bin/SplitForks takes the following flags and arguments:

[s]
Strip the resource fork from the original file. The default is to leave the resource file in place after copying it to its AppleDouble metadata file.
[v]
Produce verbose diagnostics to standard output.
file
The file to split.

foo Data fork of file 'foo'

SplitForks will fail with error 2 if the designated file is not on an HFS or Extended HFS file system volume.

FixupResourceForks(1), MvMac(1), CpMac(1)

Consult RFC 1740 for details on AppleSingle/AppleDouble formats.

April 12, 2004 Mac OS X