[OS X TeX] clean zip files

[Stefan Walsen]

Hi,

On 9. Feb 2006, at 14:25 Uhr, Friedrich Vosberg wrote:
>     zip -r foldername archivename -x .*
>                                   ^^^^^^
> The underlined option should avoid that the archive contains  
> a .DS_Store entry. But the archive *contains* one! Why?

you'll have to escape the option parameter to avoid expansion by your  
shell. try

    zip -r foldername archivename -x ".*"

regards,
stefan
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