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upload app macos

sfatnass
Contributor

hi

i try to upload an app from my mac os to the splunk base

but i get an error : hidden file start with . not allowed

i try to remove some file but mac os may not remove it

how can i resolve that ??

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sfatnass
Contributor

at first i tryed to compress the app project with tar.gz

but i resolve it with that :
./splunk package app appname

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sfatnass
Contributor

at first i tryed to compress the app project with tar.gz

but i resolve it with that :
./splunk package app appname

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Mac is linux under the sheets so open a Terminal window and delete the file with rm.

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sfatnass
Contributor

i try to remove some file but mac os may not remove it

rm - rf .*

and return

"." and ".." may not be removed

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Yes, because they are special: . is the current directory where you are in. The OS will not allow you to remove the directory where you currently are. The .. directory is the directory above that one. These are not real files and cannot be the reason for your troubles. Try this in your top-level app directory:

find . -name ".*"

Then delete those files. Files which begin with a period are not normally shown when by tools that list files.

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sfatnass
Contributor

it still "." and can't remove it.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

I told you: that is not a real file and cannot be removed. A sure way to verify this to recreate the directory structure somewhere else and manually copy each file this leaving behind any "undeletable" problematic files.

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