Add to tools to delete AppleDouble files.

[ForceConstant]

When copying files to a non-apple drive, such as USB or network drive. Apple automatically creates AppleDouble files '._*' files. Would be nice if NC, had a button to just delete all those files in a directory

[mikekazakov]

You can achieve this by writing a one-liner shell script and hooking it up in NC via an external tool.
This supports adding hotkeys as well.

[ForceConstant]

Hello, So I added a tool command "find . -name ".* -delete , but when it actually runs the command it runs find . -name ".* -delete, which didn't work. How to not have NC escape the quotes?

[mikekazakov]

Hi, could you provide both strings as preformatted (code) text?
Like

that.

Currently both strings are equal, so it's hard to understand what the problem is.

[ForceConstant]

For example I created a tool with echo. As the parameter I used
"This is a test"

And the actual command going in the terminal is
echo \"This is a test\"

Why does it escape the quotes?

[mikekazakov]

Thanks for the clarification, there's indeed an issue here - it's currently not possible to avoid shell-escaping.
In your case the solution could be to a create a wrapper script, e.g.:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ~ % cat ./RemoveAppleDouble.sh 
#/bin/sh
find "$1" -name "._*" -type f -delete

I'll think about possibility to control the parameters escaping via the tools mini-language.