{"id":769,"date":"2012-02-08T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nimbling.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2012-02-11T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T13:32:06","slug":"applescript-to-clean-zip-files-of-ds_store-and-__macosx-cruft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/applescript-to-clean-zip-files-of-ds_store-and-__macosx-cruft\/","title":{"rendered":"Applescript, Service and Hazel rule to clean ZIP files of .DS_Store and __MACOSX cruft."},"content":{"rendered":"

It performs the following commands on the selected zip:
\nzip -d Zipfile.zip \\*.DS_Store
\nzip -d Zipfile.zip \\*__MACOSX*<\/p>\n

Which is just a long way of saying it deletes those files from any zip you feed it. Makes you popular with the Windows half of your network ;)<\/p>\n

I included a service (Automator) that lets you run these commands on arbitrary files. I suggest feeding it a zip – and not an application bundle :)
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I also included a hazel<\/a> rule that applies this action to any zip on your desktop :)<\/p>\n

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To use this<\/a> script with Alfred<\/a>, you’ll need to get the powerpack<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

Grab the scripts here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It performs the following commands on the selected zip: zip -d Zipfile.zip \\*.DS_Store zip -d Zipfile.zip \\*__MACOSX* Which is just a long way of saying it deletes those files from any zip you feed it. Makes you popular with the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[120,122,121],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ui-customization","tag-applescript","tag-hazel","tag-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}