Compressing folders in Terminal, excluding .DS_Store files

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at August 26, 2011 04:21 by beneberle

Initial Code

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

Initial URL

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

Initial Description

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

Initial Title

Compressing folders in Terminal, excluding .DS_Store files

Initial Tags

unix, osx, terminal

Initial Language

Bash