On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
Thanks Mark, but my current need is to <compress> a folder and its
contents by script control.
However this little snippet is going into my code scrapbook for sure!
sqb
Hi Stephen,
The Terminal is our friend. All you have to do is man the zip command
in Terminal. It will provide you a list of flags that will allow you
to do what you want. It would probably take you no more than 20
minutes to determine which flags you need. My quick search on the
topic brought up: <http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-53258.html
>
The man for zip on OS X can be read here: <http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/zip/
>
I bet you could do it all with the lowercase r flag.
I do not favor the use of Automator for this solution. You can do it
very cleanly with shell and it will be a lot faster than Automator as
well. If this is for a commercial app, Automator will be noisy, may
cause things to flash on the screen, may break down the road when
Apple decides that its fling with Automator is over, and break between
OS updates.
Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com
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