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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with zipping files Post 302500036 by Corona688 on Saturday 26th of February 2011 01:13:34 PM
Old 02-26-2011
You agreed not to bump posts when you registered; nobody here is "on call". If you really, really need help RIGHT NOW there's even an "emergency support" forum you didn't use too.

It would help a lot to know what your system and shell is.

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Run this in its own empty directory to see what it does. It should work in most shells. You can probably adapt it to do what you want.

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# Create some example files to work on.
# it will create directories 00 through 09.
# 00/ will contain files 00-00 through 00-99,
# 01/ will contain files 01-00 through 01-99, etc.
for DIR in 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09
do
        mkdir -p $DIR
        for A in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
        do
                for B in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
                do
                        touch "$DIR/$DIR-$A$B"
                done
        done
done

# Let's list all the 00-* files, and split the list apart at 20 lines each.
# The 'split' command will create files "list-aa", "list-ab", and so forth.
# the 'sort' makes the filenames come out in order from 00 to 99, if
# you don't care about that you can leave it out.
find ./ -type f -name "00-*" | sort | split -l 20 - list-
# Now we use each list to create its own zip file.
for LIST in list-*
do
        ZIPFILE="${LIST}.zip"
        zip -r "${ZIPFILE}" -@ < "${LIST}" && rm "${LIST}"
done

# show our zipfiles
ls *.zip
# how many files in the first zip?
unzip -l list-aa.zip

 

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