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Hello - new here - bash script - need to rename and zip files.

I'm working on a project that basically unzips three zip files.
When these unzip they create about 70+ directories with subdirectories of year/month with about 3 to 9 pdf files in each directory.

Basically, I'm needing to figure out a way to zip these pdf files up.
for instance the script is in /home/reports/
the zip files are in:
/home/reports/archive/notencrypted/clientname/year/month/(report01.pdf/report02.pdf/report03.pdf)

Right now the script unzips the files, moves the original zip files to another directory for backup and replaces whitespaces with _ and strips dashes in the directory and file names.

I've fiddled around with the zip command a bit and keep encountering issues.

When I zip these files up, the three pdfs should be in one zip file for each client.

I'm new to scripting.
But I'm pretty logical. I'm thinking I should be able to variablize the directories or something and have the script enter each one and zip up the files located within. But I don't want to have to script cd /directory/here/etc... 70+ times.

Any help is appreciated.
If it needs explained in a different manner, please let me know.

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zipsplit

zipnote(1)						      General Commands Manual							zipnote(1)

NAME

       zipsplit - split a zipfile into smaller zipfiles

SYNOPSIS

       zipsplit [-t] [-i] [-p] [-s] [-n size] [-r room] [-b path] [-h] [-v] [-L] zipfile

ARGUMENTS

       zipfile	Zipfile to split.

OPTIONS

       -t     Report how many files it will take, but don't make them.

       -i     Make index (zipsplit.idx) and count its size against first zip file.

       -n size
	      Make zip files no larger than "size" (default = 36000).

       -r room
	      Leave room for "room" bytes on the first disk (default = 0).

       -b path
	      Use path for the output zip files.

       -p     Pause between output zip files.

       -s     Do a sequential split even if it takes more zip files.

       -h     Show a short help.

       -v     Show version information.

       -L     Show software license.

DESCRIPTION

       zipsplit reads a zipfile and splits it into smaller zipfiles.

EXAMPLES

       To be filled in.

BUGS

       Does not yet support large (> 2 GB) or split archives.

SEE ALSO

       zip(1), unzip(1)

AUTHOR

       Info-ZIP

								v3.0 of 8 May 2008							zipnote(1)

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