How to zip compress each directory and set filename same as directory name

Ryan22

Hi, can someone help me. I want to zip each directory recursively and set each filename (.zip) same as directory name.

/home/alice
/home/bob
/home/someuser

so the result will be alice.zip bob.zip .. someuser.zip

I dont want to do it manually, any idea how to do it? bash script maybe

*sorry my bad english.

cosmicgate

My experience with this site is, you might have a better chance of getting answers elsewhere instead.

varwww

You are welcome - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15936003/for-each-dir-create-a-tar-file

nunim

I'm not clear on what you mean by recursive as in your example you only wanted the top directories.

There's most likely better ways to do it but here's on way:

In this example your top directory is /home/stuff

cd /home/stuff |find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d  | sed 's:^\./::' | while read i; do  zip -qr9 $i.zip $i; done

pcfreak30

for i in /home/*; do cd "$i"; zip ../$(basename $i).zip -r .;done

This will cd into each directory, and zip all files. Since zip creates a folder structure based on the current directory you must cd into it.

Have fun!

jar

@pcfreak30 said:

for i in /home/*; do cd "$i"; zip ../$(basename $i).zip -r .;done

This will cd into each directory, and zip all files. Since zip creates a folder structure based on the current directory you must cd into it.

Have fun!

Fun to know I'm not the first person who thought "Oh fun, an opportunity to write a for loop!"

I love bash.

Amitz

@Jar said:
I love bash.

Who does not?

msg7086

@Amitz said:
Who does not?

I ruby

jar

@msg7086 said:
I ruby

You're hired.

Ryan22

thanks for helping.

Amitz

@msg7086 said:
I ruby

I additionally love Python, but bash is great anyway.

risharde

****> @cosmicgate said:

My experience with this site is, you might have a better chance of getting answers elsewhere instead.

I am glad to see that members of LET responded with working solutions, kudos to you guys

DalekOfSkaro

Amitz said: Who does not?

Windows users.

MarkTurner

pcfreak30 said: for i in /home/*; do cd "$i"; zip ../$(basename $i).zip -r .;done

Be careful with this, if the /home directory has a file in it then you'll end up making a zipfile with that name containing everything in the /home directory

You probably want to use find as @numin suggested to return only directories.