Someone here always has the answers that blow me away... maybe this one will be easy for someone. :P

I have a /directory with 2000 sub-directories... I want to run a script that goes in every sub-directory, zips the contents to a zip file with a name of that sub-directory, while adding a .ans file, then copying the .zip I created to the main /directory, and rm -r'ing the zipped sub-directory... :P

Heres a few of the directory names, and the .ans file that I wanna include in the created .zip's... :P

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Mechanicx a1k
'Med Users' jp20topaz.ans
Medellin panic
Medicine spedes
'Mega Expo' pi@SpeakerOffice:/export/Backup4TB/ROMs/rom/Amiga/Amiga_Demobase_3BBS/AmigaDem os $
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In the end, I wanna end up with Machanicx.zip, a1k.zip, Med Users.zip, Medellin.zip, etc... with jp20topaz.ans in them, and the original directories removed. :P

Cheers ya'll, sorry for the goofy question...



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On 15 Aug 2021, paulie420 said the following...

Someone here always has the answers that blow me away... maybe this one will be easy for someone. :P

I have a /directory with 2000 sub-directories... I want to run a script that goes in every sub-directory, zips the contents to a zip file with a name of that sub-directory, while adding a .ans file, then copying the .zip I created to the main /directory, and rm -r'ing the zipped sub-directory... :P

Hey Paulie, I haven't done it in Linux yet, but in Windows I just created a
bat file which I copied 12 sub directories (Partitions of an SD Card) to a folder on the HD then zipped everything in the folder and copied that file
out of the directory to another directory and deleted the whole directory
when done. I know this is not a big help but if you want to see my .bat file
in windows I can paste it here and you can modify it to Linux..

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Am 15.08.21 schrieb paulie420@21:2/150 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo paulie420,

I have a /directory with 2000 sub-directories... I want to run a script
that goes in every sub-directory, zips the contents to a zip file with a name of that sub-directory, while adding a .ans file, then copying the .zip I created to the main /directory, and rm -r'ing the zipped sub-directory... :P

Hmm, I have not tested the following lines, but something like that comes
in my mind:

for i in *; do
if [ -d "$i" ]; then
zip /"$i".zip "$i"/* jp20topaz.ans
fi
rm -R "$i"
done

I'm not sure about if the syntax of the "if" line is correct, but my idea
-or the pseudo-code for the above- is:

* For every file/dir in the current directory
* check if it is a directory
* zip all files in that dir + the .ans file to a file named after the
directory, but in the root directory
* remove directory

If the directory has subdirectories, the zip command maybe has to get some more parameters, also if the zip file should be "flat".
The "" around $i make sure that dirs with spaces in the names are treated correctly.

I hope that helps a little :)

Regards,
Anna

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