Zipping an application package by script

Terry Judd tsj at unimelb.edu.au
Tue Sep 9 21:30:52 EDT 2008


Hi Stephen - There's an Automator action for the Finder called 'create
archive' that should do what you want.

Cheers,

Terry...


On 10/9/08 10:49 AM, "Stephen Barncard" <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com>
wrote:

> So here's my problemo:
> 
> I want to back up a REV .app package in MacOSX Leopard and send it to
> an FTP server. But I need to squash the whole thing for upload first.
> 
> 1. I've been using the zip functions in Rev, but one has to handle
> each file separately and just keep track, or just turn the internal
> hierarchy into a flat folder. RevZip has no provision for maintaining
> folder structure. Does anyone know how to create (or where to
> include) a 'playlist' for a rev-zip file that can tell an unzipper to
> preserve the folders? How is that done?
> 
> 2. Using zip from the shell has problems - it doesn't want to see any
> .DS_Store nonsense, or for that fact anything else with duplicate
> names, even in different folders. I don't want to have to modify the
> content this way to make it work.
> 
> 3. I have yet to find an Applescript that I could use that selects
> and engages the "Compress" item in the file menu of the finder, but
> if I could make that work that would be Marvey.
> 
> surely someone has solved this....

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