Stereo Interactive & Design » OS X http://stereointeractive.com/blog Development Blog Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:16:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Create zip archive from the command line http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/03/05/create-zip-archive-from-the-command-line/ http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/03/05/create-zip-archive-from-the-command-line/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:44:28 +0000 Scott Meves http://stereointeractive.com/blog/?p=171 I never remember how to do this. I like doing it from the terminal better than the “Compress X Items” option in the finder, because the finder method will sometimes add hidden files like __MACOSX which I don’t like seeing floating around.

This is so simple, it’s stupid. 

zip [name of archive] [filepattern 1] [filepattern2] ...

So if you wanted to compress all of your PHP files from a directory:

zip phpArchive.zip *.php

If you want to zip up all the files in the current directory, including files within directories, but still only include files that match a pattern:

zip -r phpArchive.zip . -i \*.php

Now, if only I would do this often enough so I could remember it without wasting 5 minutes reading the man page.

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