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Stuffit should have cli for OS X, but...
I agree, Aladdin should have cli commands available for Stuffit Expander and Stuffit, however, they probably want to continue to get as many people to have to buy Stuffit Deluxe as possible (for all those contextual menu thingys). In the mean time, if you do want to do something remotely (over TCP/IP) or automated with cron, you use AppleScript. Up until this most recent version (7.0.1), these products have been essentially immune from scripting (by me anyway :-)) except to open or close. With this version, one can script them to stuff and expand items. Here is a rough script to stuff all items in a particular folder and delete the original. It can be used with cron, or within a folder action (and therefore the location of the folder would not be required). I use it, and it works for me, but I'm sure it needs a lot of work to make it nice. Greater complexity is required because while stuffing via AppleScript, it does not know the item has already been stuffed, so I had to have it check.
More flexibility with Script Editor 2.0 installed.
...by the way, if you have the 2.0 beta of Script Editor installed, you can write this script in any application to which "Services" are available (and in which you can enter text, such as TextEdit), and run the script from "Services". Thus, neither Script Editor nor compiled scripts are necessary. |
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