Zipping an application package by script

[Brian Yennie]

Would this work for your needs?

1) tar and zip it

tar -c -z -f MyApplication.tar.gz MyApplication.app

2) unzip it later

tar -xzf MyApplication.tar.gz


HTH,
Brian


> I don't really care if the DS_Store files are in there or not ( I  
> care not about Windoze )  - that was just an issue that stopped the  
> shell call. But that does that mean there are several versions of  
> Zip on the machine?
>
> 1. zip for rev
> 2. zip for the shell
> 3. whatever Automator uses (perhaps shell, above)
> 4. The finder "Compress" menu item...  (which results is what I  
> want) -- It has no problems....
>
> Is there a 'domenu' applescript ?