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Old 12-21-2011
Script help - TAR
*****CAN'T CHANGE THE TOPIC NAME******** I'm using "zip" instead

Hi. I'm trying to make my script use "zip" and i want it to compress all the files in a directory to individual zip files... but i can't really figure out how. i have googled around. tried some different things... but i can't get it to work. It doesn't do anything after "exit" when i run the script.

And yes the rest of the script works as it should.

script:

Code:
#!do not change below
cd $LOCAL
ftp -n $HOST <<SCRIPT
user $USER $PASSWD
prompt
binary
cd $REMOTE
mget -f $FILES
exit
cd $LOCAL
zip *.txt
SCRIPT

Last edited by vYN; 12-21-2011 at 10:53 PM..
# 2  
Old 12-21-2011
Try...
Code:
for i in *.txt; do zip "${i%.txt}.zip" "$i"; done

# 3  
Old 12-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ygor
Try...
Code:
for i in *.txt; do zip "${i%.txt}.zip" "$i"; done

OMG it worked. thx... sorry to ask... how do i remove the txt files it just ziped.

rm *.txt ?
# 4  
Old 12-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by vYN
OMG it worked. thx... sorry to ask... how do i remove the txt files it just ziped.

rm *.txt ?
Yes, but careful. That will delete all the txt files in current directory.
# 5  
Old 12-22-2011
Once the zip operation is completed, ( after successful completion ), the below command will delete that .txt file

Code:
 
for i in *.txt; do zip "${i%.txt}.zip" "$i" && rm "$i" ; done

# 6  
Old 12-22-2011
OKey. Thanks for all the help with this little issue. and it's now solved ^^
# 7  
Old 12-22-2011
Or use zip -m
From man zip...
Quote:
-m
Move the specified files into the zip archive; actually, this deletes the target directories/files after making the specified zip archive. If a directory becomes empty after removal of the files, the directory is also removed. No deletions are done until zip has created the archive without error. This is useful for conserving disk space, but is potentially dangerous so it is recommended to use it in combination with -T to test the archive before removing all input files.
 
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