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beneberle on 08/26/11


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Compressing folders in Terminal, excluding .DS_Store files

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URL: http://superuser.com/questions/198569/compressing-folders-on-a-mac-without-the-ds-store

If you need to zip a directory named folderName and ignore all .DS_Store files, then do the following:

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  1. zip -r newArchiveName.zip folderName -x "*.DS_Store"

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