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Zipping Multiple Folders into Separate Archives in Mac OS X.
Zephonate
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Pretty self-explanatory. I have around 700 folders worth of .jpegs that I want to compress to .zip files, but each in separate archives. Each folder has around fifteen to thirty images in it, so I'd want to compress each of those folders individually, ending up with about 700 .zip files. However, anyone who knows Mac OS X knows that when you right-click several folders, it only give you the option to put them all in a single archive, rather than divide them up. Furthermore, performing this task one archive at a time is incredibly tedious and time consuming, and I pray there's an easier, faster method for doing so.
Anyone out there able to help?
Anyone out there able to help?
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Mac OSX uses bash for its terminal, right?
You'll want todo something like:
for d in $(ls -1) ;
do
zip <some arguments> "$d" "$d.zip"
done
Sorry I can't be more specific on the zip stuff - I don't have great Internet access at the moment. The GNU/Linux and programming thread guys will be able to be exact if you let them know you want some shell scripting advice.