Re: Iterator actions anyone?
Re: Iterator actions anyone?
- Subject: Re: Iterator actions anyone?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 12:28:51 -0400
On May 14, 2005, at 7:08 AM, Mike Ashley wrote:
On May 13, 2005, at 8:10 PM, Alexandre Rousseau wrote:
BTW, do you know if there exists and Applescript command
equivalent for the "Create Archive" automator action?
The command-line program 'zip' can make them. See http://
developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html for information on
the 'do shell script' command in Applescript. From a Terminal
window, type 'man zip' to get a manual page on zip.
For some definition of "make", yes -- /usr/bin/zip doesn't preserve
resource forks or Mac meta-data. (A prerelease version of "Create
Archive" used zip, and we had to fix it.) If you want specifically a
StuffIt archive, you'll need to script StuffIt, which is certainly
possible. If you don't care about the precise archive format, check
out ditto(1) or pax(1).
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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