Mac zip compress without __MACOSX folder?

Question

When I compress files with the built in zip compressor in Mac OSX, it results in an extra folder titled \"__MACOSX\" created in the extracted zip.

Can I adjust my se

Answer 1

This command did it for me:

zip -r Target.zip Source -x "*.DS_Store"

Target.zip is the zip file to create. Source is the source file/folder to zip up. And the _x parameter specifies the file/folder to not include. If the above doesn't work for whatever reason, try this instead:

zip -r Target.zip Source -x "*.DS_Store" -x "__MACOSX"