Mass Zipping

[DemonStar55]

well I need a program (GUI or command line), for linux, that will take about 1000 files totaling liek 7 GB and just zipping and deleteing the source file because I need some hdd space. I know there was an app for windows that did this just I forget the name, might be possible to run through WINE.

 

[theoddbot]

for file in *; do zip -m $file.zip $file; done

 

[DemonStar55]

for file in *; do zip -m $file.zip $file; done

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so I CD to the directory and type zip -m $file.zip $file and it will just take every file in that directory and zip them?

edit: nvm if I just select the files and compress them with ark it does it apparently
edit2: nvm it doesn't seem to want to work on that PC...

 

[mongolito404]

No, you just CD in the directory and type "for file in *; do zip -m $file.zip $file; done".
Since you are using Linux, you can also use bzip2 wich is better than zip.

for file in *; do bzip2 -f $file; done

(the -f flag will delete the uncompressed file)

 

[DemonStar55]

No, you just CD in the directory and type "for file in *; do zip -m $file.zip $file; done".
Since you are using Linux, you can also use bzip2 wich is better than zip.

for file in *; do bzip2 -f $file; done

(the -f flag will delete the uncompressed file)

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arg, famn it doesn't work with spaces in the filenames

and Im not sure if the program Im using supports bzip2, know it supports zip tho

EDIT: alright I added some quotes, works now

thank you people for your troubles

 

[Cyclops]

Yopu can get a little more space from your zip files http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/comp-readme.html

find . -type f -name '*.zip' -exec advzip -zp4 {} ;

should find all zips in all sub directories

 

[DemonStar55]

Yopu can get a little more space from your zip files http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/comp-readme.html

find . -type f -name '*.zip' -exec advzip -zp4 {} ;

should find all zips in all sub directories

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alright, thanks. will do that when it's done zipping