How do I write a script that will automatically find and zip any folder to the same name in a directory and affected recursively?. The zip file should be place in the same directory where the source folder is. Help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Welcome Frozen77,
I have a few to questions pose in response first:-
Is this homework/assignment? There are specific forums for these.
What have you tried so far?
What output/errors do you get?
What OS and version are you using?
What are your preferred tools? (C, shell, perl, awk, etc. along with gzip or other compression software)
What logical process have you considered? (to help steer us to follow what you are trying to achieve)
Most importantly, What have you tried so far?
There are probably many ways to achieve most tasks, so giving us an idea of your style and thoughts will help us guide you to an answer most suitable to you so you can adjust it to suit your needs in future.
We're all here to learn and getting the relevant information will help us all.
That seems to work, thanks alot. I have to ask does maxdepth mean it only search for 1 layer of subdirectory? how can it search infinite recursively? thanks again.
I have to ask does maxdepth mean it only search for 1 layer of subdirectory?
Exactly.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Frozen77
how can it search infinite recursively?
Just remove the option -maxdepth 1
*** Important note ***: Actually, the provided command is a combination of two commands (find+zip),
which *does* recursively zip. The recursively part is performed by the zip's option -r.
Assuming following directory structure
and the command being run in the sourcedir, it would produce 3 zip files:
I highly doubt you want to remove the maxdepth option, because it would create a backup of the backup of the backup of the backup...
Hope you get the idea
Edit:
You could add the echo command to just see what would happen, and afterwards remove the -maxdepth 1 part and see the difference.
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