{
"name": "ditto",
"description": "Copy directory hierarchies, create and extract archives",
"options": [
{
"names": [
"--help"
],
"description": "Show help for ditto"
},
{
"names": [
"-h"
],
"description": "Print full usage"
},
{
"names": [
"-X"
],
"description": "When copying one or more source directories, do not descend into directories that have a different device ID"
},
{
"names": [
"-c"
],
"description": "Create an archive at the destination path"
},
{
"names": [
"-z"
],
"description": "Create compressed CPIO archives, using gzip(1) compression"
},
{
"names": [
"-j"
],
"description": "Create compressed CPIO archives, using bzip2(1) compression"
},
{
"names": [
"-v"
],
"description": "Print a line of output to stderr for each source directory copied"
},
{
"names": [
"-V"
],
"description": "Print a line of output to stderr for every file, symbolic link, and device copied"
},
{
"names": [
"-x"
],
"description": "Extract the archives given as source arguments"
},
{
"names": [
"-k"
],
"description": "Create or extract from a PKZip archive instead of the default CPIO"
},
{
"names": [
"--keepParent"
],
"description": "When creating an archive, embed the parent directory name src in dst_archive"
},
{
"names": [
"--arch"
],
"description": "Thin Universal binaries to the specified architecture. If multiple --arch options are specified then the resulting destination file will contain each of the specified architectures (if they are prese",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "arch"
}
},
{
"names": [
"--bom"
],
"description": "Copy only files, links, devices, and directories that are present in the specified BOM",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "bom"
}
},
{
"names": [
"-rsrc"
],
"description": "Preserve resource forks and HFS meta-data. ditto will store this data in Carbon-compatible ._ AppleDouble files on filesystems that do not natively support resource forks. As of Mac OS X 10.4, --rsr"
},
{
"names": [
"--norsrc"
],
"description": "Do not preserve resource forks and HFS meta-data. If both --norsrc and --rsrc are passed, whichever is passed last will take precedence. Both options override DITTONORSRC. Unless explicitly specifie"
},
{
"names": [
"--extattr"
],
"description": "Preserve extended attributes (requires --rsrc). As of Mac OS X 10.5, --extattr is the default"
},
{
"names": [
"--noextattr"
],
"description": "Do not preserve extended attributes (requires --norsrc)"
},
{
"names": [
"--qtn"
],
"description": "Preserve quarantine information. As of Mac OS X 10.5, --qtn is the default"
},
{
"names": [
"--noqtn"
],
"description": "Do not preserve quarantine information"
},
{
"names": [
"--acl"
],
"description": "Preserve Access Control Lists (ACLs). As of Mac OS X 10.5, --acl is the default"
},
{
"names": [
"--noacl"
],
"description": "Do not preserve ACLs"
},
{
"names": [
"--nocache"
],
"description": "Do not perform copies using the Mac OS X Unified Buffer Cache. Files read and written will not be cached, although if the file is already present in the cache, the cached information will be used"
},
{
"names": [
"--hfsCompression"
],
"description": "When copying files or extracting content from an archive, if the destination is an HFS+ volume that supports compression, all the content will be compressed if appropriate. This is only supported on M"
},
{
"names": [
"--nohfsCompression"
],
"description": "Do not compress files with HFS+ compression when copying or extracting content from an archive unless the content is already compressed with HFS+ compression. This flag is only supported on Mac OS X "
},
{
"names": [
"--preserveHFSCompression"
],
"description": "When copying files to an HFS+ volume that supports compression, ditto will preserve the compression of any source files that were using HFS+ compression. This flag is only supported on Mac OS X 10.6 "
},
{
"names": [
"--nopreserveHFSCompression"
],
"description": "Do not preserve HFS+ compression when copying files that are already compressed with HFS+ compression. This is only supported on Mac OS X 10.6 or later"
},
{
"names": [
"--sequesterRsrc"
],
"description": "When creating a PKZip archive, preserve resource forks and HFS meta-data in the subdirectory __MACOSX. PKZip extraction will automatically find these resources"
},
{
"names": [
"--zlibCompressionLevel"
],
"description": "Sets the compression level to use when creating a PKZip archive. The compression level can be set from 0 to 9, where 0 represents no compression, and 9 represents optimal (slowest) compression. By def",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "compression level"
}
},
{
"names": [
"--password"
],
"description": "When extracting a password-encrypted ZIP archive, you must specify --password to allow ditto to prompt for a password to use to extract the contents of the file. If this option is not provided, and a "
}
],
"args": [
{
"name": "source",
"is_variadic": true,
"template": "filepaths"
},
{
"name": "dest",
"template": "folders"
}
]
}