zip files within all sub-directories of a given parent directory

Question

Say I have a parent_directory/ with the following sub-directories child1/, child2/ and child3/.

How do I script to zip all *.txt files in childx/ into childx.zip I also want this childx.zip to be located in its childx/ directory.

Possible duplicate of command to zip multiple directories into individual zip files — Jeff Schaller, Jul 05 '18 at 14:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 05 '18 at 13:58

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Try,

$ zip -R parent_directory '*.txt'

edited Jul 05 '18 at 13:58

slm

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answered Jul 05 '18 at 13:52

Siva

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '18 at 14:14

Sample data

$ mkdir -p parent_directory/child{1..3}
$ touch parent_directory/child{1..3}/file1.txt
$ touch parent_directory/child{1..3}/file2.txt

$ tree parent_directory/
parent_directory/
├── child1
│   ├── file1.txt
│   └── file2.txt
├── child2
│   ├── file1.txt
│   └── file2.txt
└── child3
    ├── file1.txt
    └── file2.txt

3 directories, 6 files

Solution

Now to script the zip files:

$ cd parent_directory/; for i in *; do find ${i} -name "*.txt" -print | zip ${i}.zip -@; mv ${i}.zip ${i}; done; cd -
  adding: child1/file2.txt (stored 0%)
  adding: child1/file1.txt (stored 0%)
  adding: child2/file2.txt (stored 0%)
  adding: child2/file1.txt (stored 0%)
  adding: child3/file2.txt (stored 0%)
  adding: child3/file1.txt (stored 0%)

Results

And the results:

$ tree parent_directory/
parent_directory/
├── child1
│   ├── child1.zip
│   ├── file1.txt
│   └── file2.txt
├── child2
│   ├── child2.zip
│   ├── file1.txt
│   └── file2.txt
└── child3
    ├── child3.zip
    ├── file1.txt
    └── file2.txt

3 directories, 9 files

$ unzip -l parent_directory/child1/child1.zip
Archive:  parent_directory/child1/child1.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  07-05-2018 10:08   child1/file2.txt
        0  07-05-2018 10:08   child1/file1.txt
---------                     -------
        0                     2 files
$ unzip -l parent_directory/child2/child2.zip
Archive:  parent_directory/child2/child2.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  07-05-2018 10:08   child2/file2.txt
        0  07-05-2018 10:08   child2/file1.txt
---------                     -------
        0                     2 files
$ unzip -l parent_directory/child3/child3.zip
Archive:  parent_directory/child3/child3.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  07-05-2018 10:08   child3/file2.txt
        0  07-05-2018 10:08   child3/file1.txt
---------                     -------
        0                     2 files

References

https://linux.die.net/man/1/zip

follow-up question: child1/ has additional sub-directories (and these might have sub-directories too), and I'd like the script to do the same on these sub-directories as well, recursively. Would a simple -r do it? and where would I place it in the command? — Tejas, Jul 05 '18 at 14:27

zip files within all sub-directories of a given parent directory

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