Ubuntu

I have a folder, and in this folder, there are about 197 folders.
Resources
a
files and folders
b
files and folders

Like that. I need to make a zip with files and folders in them with the name the same as the parent folder. so.

a.zip
files and folders
b.zip
files and folders

Like that? How would I do that? I cant do it on windows because my intelligence doesn't serve me that well.. and I cant get it on linux either!

If you want all content and subtree of your folder "a" :

Code:

cd "a"
tar cf - . | gzip >a.tgz

You can then move your archive to the desired destination and unzip it like:

Code:

cd destination
gunzip -c a.tgz | tar -xf -

From the man pages :
Gzip uses the Lempel-Ziv algorithm used in zip and PKZIP.

I need to do 200 directories though... can you write me a script?

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I know how to do it manually, I need to know how to do 200 directories with a script. or something. I cant be asked to run 200 seperate commands. its just un-kosher

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also, it needs to use .zip. Nothing else!

If there are 200 directories inside your directory "a", all of them will be included in the archive generated by the command previously given (assuming your user is granted to see them).

Why such a restriction regarding "zip" format ? by the way, as previously specified (extract from man page), gzip works with the same compression algorithm, so you should be able to rename the file in *.zip if you wish (i haven't tried it but i suppose it should work), but you would then have to deal with the tar format.

There are some free program like 7zip that works for windows as well and are able to manage such files.

Like. in the folder X there are 200 folders. Inside each of those 200 folders, I need the content from folder 1, into a zip. 1.zip
then content from folder 2. 2.zip. it cant have the folder 1 in the root of that zip though. it has to have the CONTENT in the first part? This is very confusing. I know.