Mark, thanks for your suggestions.
I do know about the terminal, and I have read the man page on zip
several days ago.
As I mentioned at the start of this thread, using zip in the shell
for me has ended up in zip not digging identical filenames like
.DS_store or info.plist (in different folders ) and stopping
execution.
Rather than think about some kind of pre-cleaner to remove or change
them (why should I ) I had moved on after 20 minutes.
I bet you could do it all with the lowercase r flag.
which was what I was doing:
put "zip -r -jj" into zCommand
put "/Users/barncard/STANDALONES/55.app/" into ToBeZippdFolder
put "/Users/barncard/Desktop/archive/" into zipfolder
replace space with "\" & space in zipfolder
replace space with "\" & space in ToBeZippdFolder
put shell( zCommand && ToBeZippdFolder && ToBeZippdFolder) into fld "output"
and got this result:
zip warning: name in zip file repeated: Info.plist
zip error: Invalid command arguments (cannot repeat names in zip file)
What I have been looking for here, is an all-rev solution -- and it
appears that I was wrong in assuming that one couldn't build a
complex file and folder structure inside revZip. As it turns out,
Trevor Devore just sent me a recursive handler using strictly revZip
commands that I think do what I want.
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.
which was what I was doing:
put "zip -r -j" into zCommand
put "/Users/sbarncar/Projects/2007 Projects/C H A T E A
U/STANDALONES/CHATEAU WIRE 55 REV
3.0/chateauWire55/chateauWire55.app/" into ToBeZippdFolder
put "/Users/sbarncar/Desktop/chateauWire55/" into zipfolder
replace space with "\" & space in zipfolder
replace space with "\" & space in ToBeZippdFolder
put shell( zCommand && ToBeZippdFolder && ToBeZippdFolder) into fld "output"
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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stephen barncard
s a n f r a n c i s c o
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