[macrophyllum]

Hi,

I am not very good with command line tools and am wondering if someone can help me create an zip archive of the Desktop folder using usr/bin/zip and NSTask.

I have gotten this far (see below), but since I don't really know how to use usr/bin/zip in the command line I don't know how to create my NSTask.

//begin sample code

NSTask *task;
task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
[task setLaunchPath: @"/usr/bin/zip"];
//should this be "/usr/bin/zip ~/Desktop" or something like that? how do you create an zip archive from the command line?

NSPipe *pipe;
pipe = [NSPipe pipe];
[task setStandardOutput: pipe];

[task launch];

//end sample code

Thanks for the help.

[Beepcake]

If you drop to a terminal prompt and just type 'zip' you will get a list of the commandline switches. Basically if you want to zip up a directory and all it's subdirectories you need something like:

zip -r desktop.zip ~/desktop/*

-r means 'recurse directories' so you get folders copied too
desktop.zip is the name of the file to create.. you'll probably want to put a path in there too
~/desltop/* means zip up everything on the current user's desktop

Hope that helps.

[macrophyllum]

Thank you very much.

[Chuckit]

And you don't want to put the arguments in the NSTask launch path. Check out the NSTask documentation for how to set arguments.