How to zip each of the files?


 
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Old 06-29-2011
As I don't have "zip" utility I can't check. I did a try with gzip

Code:
 
ls *.epub | while read line
do
gzip "${line}"
done

So, ideally the zip too should work for you in the same way.

Code:
 
ls *.epub | while read line
do
zip ${file}".zip" ${file} 
done

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