How to tar all subdirectories individually?

Mountain · 04-26-2009, 06:09 PM

Is there a better way to do it than this? (I have not tested this script yet, so it is more like pseudo code...)

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#tar & compress all subdirectories individually
for file in $(ls -1); do
	if [ -d file ]; then
		tar --delete-files -czf ${file}.zip $file
	fi
done		
exit 0

billymayday · 04-26-2009, 06:24 PM

What are you suggesting is wrong with your proposed method?

I would suggest a more "traditional" file extension though - probably filename.tar.gz

Mountain · 04-26-2009, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

What are you suggesting is wrong with your proposed method?

I would suggest a more "traditional" file extension though - probably filename.tar.gz

I didn't know if anything was wrong with this method. But usually when i think a loop is the right way to do it, someone on here gives me a 1-liner that is much better.

I just tested my code and this works:

Code:

for file in $(ls -1); do if [ -d $file ]; then tar --remove-files -czvvf ${file}.zip ${file}/; fi; done

But if there is a better way, please let me know.

Mountain · 04-26-2009, 06:32 PM

i'm not sure if the windows users in my family will know what to do when they see a .tar.gz extension...

so I thought I would try to make things easy for them with .zip

billymayday · 04-26-2009, 06:44 PM

If you want them to be able to unzip them, you won't want to use tar then.

Mountain · 04-26-2009, 06:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

If you want them to be able to unzip them, you won't want to use tar then.

thanks for the heads up. what should i use so a Windows user can unzip an archive like this?

billymayday · 04-26-2009, 06:58 PM

Add the files to the zip archive without using tar

Mountain · 04-26-2009, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

Add the files to the zip archive without using tar

I know no more than this:

Quote:

zip is a compression and file packaging utility ... it is analogous to a combination of the UNIX commands tar and compress and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz’s ZIP for MSDOS systems).

That makes me think the prior tar -cjf command would do the same thing.

BTW, this works:

Code:

for file in $(ls -1); do if [ -d $file ]; then zip -rm ${file}.zip ${file}/; fi; done

billymayday · 04-26-2009, 07:33 PM

That is telling you that pkzip is compatible with windows zip, not that tar is.

Glad that version works.

BM

Mountain · 04-26-2009, 11:41 PM

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# zip all subdirectories individually
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
	echo 1>&2 Usage: $0 path/exclusion.lst
	exit 1
fi
echo "exclusion list contains" `cat $1`

for file in $(ls -1); do 
	echo checking "$file"
	if [ -d "$file" ]; then 
		echo "$file is a directory"
		exclCheck=`grep "$file" $1`
		if [ -z $exclCheck ]; then
			echo "zipping $file"
			zip -rm "${file}.zip" "${file}/"
		else
			echo "Exclusion list contains ${exclCheck}."
			echo "skipping $file"
		fi;
	fi; 
done
exit 0

Code:

cat exclude.lst 
folderIDoNotWantZipped
anotherSpecialFolder
doNotZipMe
AnyFolder