Zipping an application package by script

[Jim Ault]

This works great.

On 9/10/08 3:38 PM, "Brian Yennie" <briany at qldlearning.com> wrote:

> Stephen,
> 
> I would really consider using the "tar" command through shell(). It's
> purpose in life is primarily to archive directories, and it can zip
> things up automatically. Here is a very basic guide:
> 
> http://www.cpqlinux.com/tar.html
> 
> With tar, this is a shell() one-liner. Just treat the app like an
> ordinary directory.
> 

Thanks for the tip on using   tar  to compress nested folders.

I did the following on Mac OSX 10.5.4

= 3 folders containing two files with the same name
--nestedFolder
------folder01
----------index.php
------folder02
----------index.php


tar -c -z -f nestedFolerTest.tar.gz folderTarget
--> created " nestedFolerTest.tar.gz"

I moved the gz file to another folder, then double clicked to decompress,
and everything worked perfectly.


Further, using control-click (or right-click) and choosing

'open with console'
displays the contents of the archive + has a filter input box to show only
the lines you want to see

'open with stufit expander'
just as you would expect
  a) one file ( nestedFolerTest.tar   no gz),
  b) then the folder ' nestedFolerTest' as the original

Hope this helps someone

Jim Ault
Las Vegas