Zip several soundfile-formats without deflate I have a folder that i want to zip but not deflate the soundfiles (since i'll create an expansion file for android). TO achieve that one can use the -n flag. that is zip -n .mp3 main_expansion thaisounds then a new zip-folder is created where the mp3-soundfiles are stored but not deflated. The problem is that I also have two other sounfile-format there .wav .3ga If I add those as follows zip -n .mp3,.wav,.3ga main_expansion thaisounds Then the program starts to deflate all files though I use the -n flag. So - my question - How should I use the zip-command to not deflating the mediafiles when there are several formats?

According to my version of the zip man-page, you need to use colons to separate the suffixes:


-n suffixes
--suffixes suffixes
Do not attempt to compress files named with the given suffixes. Such files are simply stored (0% compres-
sion) in the output zip file, so that zip doesn’t waste its time trying to compress them. The suffixes
are separated by either colons or semicolons. For example:

zip -rn .Z:.zip:.tiff:.gif:.snd foo foo


So you'd end up with:


zip -n .mp3:.wav:.3ga main_expansion thaisounds