Easily Create .ipa Archives for Ad Hoc Distribution

Today I whipped up a little shell script, mkipa, that creates .ipa files for distribution. Typically, people are dragging and dropping .app bundles to iTunes and back out of the arcane depths of their ~/Library. This should streamline things for devs, since you can just specify the source .app bundle and the name of the output ipa (sans ".ipa").

Enjoy. I will update the gist as I improve the script.

BUNDLE="$1"TIMETAG=`date +%y%m%d%H%M`OUT="$2-$TIMETAG.ipa"
if [ $# -ne 2 ] || [ ! -d "$BUNDLE" ]then  echo 'Usage: mkipa <path_to_app_bundle> <output_ipa_name>'  echo 'Example: mkipa build/Distribution (Ad Hoc)-iphoneos/MyApp.app MyAppAdHoc'else  if [ ! -f "$BUNDLE/Entitlements.plist" ]  then    echo 'Warning: Your .app bundle appears to be missing an Entitlements file'    echo 'Are you sure it is an ad hoc build?'  fi    if [ -f "$OUT" ]  then    read -s -n1 -p "$OUT already exists, overwrite it? [y/n]: " keypress    echo    if [ "$keypress" != 'y' ]    then      echo "aborting"    fi  fi    TEMP=`mktemp -d ipaXXX`  PAYLOAD="$TEMP/Payload"    # the real work  mkdir $PAYLOAD  cp -r "$BUNDLE" $PAYLOAD  cd $TEMP  zip -rq "$OUT" Payload  cp "$OUT" ..  cd ..    # clean up  rm -rf $TEMPfi

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