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

You can't.

But what you can do is delete those unwanted folders after zipping. Command line zip takes different arguments where one, the -d, is for deleting contents based on a regex. So you can use it like this:

zip -d filename.zip __MACOSX/\*