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Compress your files without including .DS_Store with single line command.
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Mac-folder-clean.txt
zip -r foo.zip foo -x "*.DS_Store"
To interpret this, we are running the zip executable with the following parameters/arguments:
-r for recursively including all directories underneath the targets we want to zip.
foo.zip is the name of the zip archive we are creating
foo is the target directory we want to zip up
-x "*.DS_Store" excludes all files whose path ends in the string ".DS_Store"
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