On Mar 20, 2006, at 10:25, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:
> And this created a zip file named "man_viewer.zip"; double-clicking  
> on it (in another folder), it created "man_viewer.app", but it had  
> only a generic application icon (the original "man_viewer.app" is  
> an AppleScript application); double-clicking on it, it did  
> nothing..., and it is not an application bundle.  I guess it is  
> this "bundle" format which is the cause of this problem.  Could you  
> show me how I would be able to zip an application?

The "bundle" is a directory tree.  Try using the -r switch:
zip -r man_viewer man_viewer.app

> On the other hand, I don't understand how to use "-x" option with "- 
> r" option.  For example, I would like to zip recursively a folder  
> named "images", excluding ".DS_Store" files.  I tried:
> zip -r images images -x \.*
> or
> zip -r images images -x \.DS_Store

The pattern match used for -x includes the path, so try:
zip -r images images -x "*/.*"
or
zip -r images images -x \*.DS_Store
(Also note that the backslash is one of the ways of escaping the '*'  
from the shell's expansion.  It is not necessary to escape the '.')

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