To get rid of the pesky ._{filename} attributes being added to tar archives on Leopard, simply: export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true

I use Linux and other Unices (BSD, OSX) everday and needed a script that would setup my configuration files. In unix most user defined configuration options are defined in a user’s home directory, but I wanted to keep them all under Subversion (version control rocks) and needed an easy way of copying them back [...]