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Old 04-26-2009, 06:09 PM   #1
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How to tar all subdirectories individually?


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
 
Old 04-26-2009, 06:24 PM   #2
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What are you suggesting is wrong with your proposed method?

I would suggest a more "traditional" file extension though - probably filename.tar.gz
 
Old 04-26-2009, 06:30 PM   #3
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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.
 
Old 04-26-2009, 06:32 PM   #4
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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
 
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If you want them to be able to unzip them, you won't want to use tar then.
 
Old 04-26-2009, 06:48 PM   #6
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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?
 
Old 04-26-2009, 06:58 PM   #7
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Add the files to the zip archive without using tar
 
Old 04-26-2009, 07:13 PM   #8
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Add the files to the zip archive without using tar
I know no more than this:
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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
 
Old 04-26-2009, 07:33 PM   #9
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That is telling you that pkzip is compatible with windows zip, not that tar is.

Glad that version works.

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Old 04-26-2009, 11:41 PM   #10
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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
 
  


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