Zip WordPress theme through Terminal and ignore DS_Store

Since the day I shifted to Macbook, I fell in love with Terminal. Terminal is minimal, hackable, fast and to the point. There are so many benefits of being a terminal junkie that I’d have to write another post some day. Today I intend to write about how I zip WordPress themes through terminal whilst ignoring hidden .DS_Store files added by Mac OS in each folder.

The command#

zip -r theme.zip themefolder -x "*.DS_Store"

• -r for recursively including all directories underneath the targets we want to zip.
• theme.zip is the name of the zip archive we are creating
• themefolder is the target directory we want to zip up
• -x "*.DS_Store" excludes all files whose path ends in the string “.DS_Store”

Yes, no goofy third party applications needed at all. Just rely on all of the unix tool goodness built right in to MacOS/OSX.