What is the command line equivalent of the compress tool in Finder

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What is the command line equivalent of the compress tool in Finder

I have an automatic build setup for our iPhone Apps. The one issue i face everytime is that the zip file that i create in the build using zip command is always rejected by iTunesConnect server as invalid binary. When i compress the .APP folder manually using Compress from the *Finder menu*, that archive is always accepted. The size of the zip files generated is slightly different.

Does anyone know what would be the command line equivalent of the Compress used by the Finder ? I want to automate this process so that someone does not have to do a manual compress before uploading it to iTunesConnect.

Thanks in advance,

-TRS

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 11, 2009 6:16 AM

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Xanthos

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Mar 14, 2009 2:45 PM in response to trshivku

It could also be that you can do some fiddling with the ditto arguments to get the bits aligned. Here is what I use to generate the archive:


ditto -c -k -v --sequesterRsrc $product $zipfile

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trshivku Author

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Mar 16, 2009 10:26 AM in response to Xanthos

Xanthos,

You use this to generate the Zip that you submit to iTunesConnect ?

Don't you have to use --keepParent ? If this option is not specified then it does not keep the folder information which i guess is required to create the resources folder when the zip file is uncompressed.

Thanks.

-TRS

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trshivku Author

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Mar 19, 2009 2:11 PM in response to trshivku

Happy to confirm that the zip file generated using ditto was accepted by iTunesConnect. Thank you all for your help.

Command used:

*ditto -c -k --rsrc --extattr --keepParent myapp.app myapp.zip*

Special thanks to James.

-TRS

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What is the command line equivalent of the *compress* tool in *Finder*

What is the command line equivalent of the compress tool in Finder