[X-Unix] zip from command-line in Tiger

Scott J. Kramer x-unix at sjk.us
Sat Jun 25 23:36:20 PDT 2005


--On Saturday, June 25, 2005 23:12  -0400 Stephen Jonke 
<sjj_public at mac.com> wrote:

> One problem with ditto I'm finding is that it won't take multiple  files
> and compress them into one zip archive. When using the archive  option
> you can only provide one file/folder.

Yep, that can be a frustrating limitation.

> So now I guess my script  will have to copy all the files into a folder,
> then ditto-zip it,  then delete the temporary folder. Oh well.

Sorry if I missed your reason earlier, but I'm curious why you're using
zip instead of tar on 10.4 if you want to preserve resource forks.

-sjk



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