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Asked: 2026-05-16T12:13:52+00:00

I’m writing a shell script that needs to compress a dir with the same

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I’m writing a shell script that needs to compress a dir with the same options that are set from the Mac GUI when you do a “right click -> Compress”. From what I understand ditto is the right tool for the job, but what flags do I need to pass besides “-c”? I’ve tried raw “-c” as well as “-c -k” and both give different results from the right click.

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to “man ditto”,

    The command:

           ditto -c -k --sequesterRsrc --keepParent src_directory archive.zip

    will create a PKZip archive similarly to the Finder’s Compress functionality.

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