sit - Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems

[eric]

Wow, keep up the great work! I made compression work on linux and added a github action to build for both mac/linux https://github.com/thecloudexpanse/sit/pull/3

 

[thecloud]

Wow, keep up the great work! I made compression work on linux and added a github action to build for both mac/linux https://github.com/thecloudexpanse/sit/pull/3

Thanks! Appreciate your contributions. I haven't been testing my changes on Linux to this point, so the github action will certainly help.

EDIT: looks like the action is running successfully! https://github.com/thecloudexpanse/sit/actions

 

[V.Yakob]

@thecloud I have some similar solutions for shortcuts on AppleScript, so I adapted them quickly enough.

tell application "Finder"
    --Creating an array for selected files
    set SelectedItems to {}
    -- Create an array for the POSIX list of paths
    set POSIXList to {}
    -- We transfer the paths of all selected files and directories to the array
    set SelectedItems to selection as alias list
    -- We go through each chosen path
    repeat with SelectedItem in SelectedItems
        -- We take the path in quotation marks and convert it to POSIX format and add a space
        set end of POSIXList to (quoted form of POSIX path of SelectedItem) & " "
    end repeat
    -- Determine the root by the first selected file or directory
    set RootFolder to POSIX path of ((container of SelectedItem) as alias) as text
    -- Set the name of the archive
    set ArchName to quoted form of (RootFolder & "Archive.sit")
    -- SIT It!
    do shell script "/usr/local/bin/sit -o" & space & ArchName & space & POSIXList
end tell

 

[JDW]

You can have this functionality without having StuffIt Deluxe 16 installed.

Stuffit 1.5.1 or 5.x archive?

 

[thecloud]

Stuffit 1.5.1 or 5.x archive?

1.5.1 in this case.

 

[thecloud]

@thecloud I have some similar solutions for shortcuts on AppleScript, so I adapted them quickly enough.

Thanks! I had noticed that my quick-and-dirty script was only handling one selection, and really needed to iterate over the list as you have done.