unicoding

The ‘Finder’ which ships with Mac OS X 10.3 and later has a convenient create archive feature. It is also possible to create these archives by using the ‘ditto’ command.

• archive

ditto -c -k - -keepParent -rsrc $1 $2

• de-archive

ditto -x -k - -sequesterRsrc $1

This information originates form this article on Mac OS X hints.

Finally, if you are looking for how to use tar to zip and unzip files then visit this link.

Alterntivly, view the offical ditto man page.

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