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Created December 3, 2013 15:14
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Problem: When I make a gzipped tar file in OS X and expand it in Ubuntu there are duplicates of every file with `._` prepended to the file name. Solution: Skip those stupid `._` files
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expandmactarfileinubuntu.sh
tar -xzpvf mytarfile.tgz --exclude="._*"
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