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 A bash script to zip archive the directories within a directory.
+
+This script is designed to zip archive all the directories within a
+given directory (or the current one if unspecified) and output the
+.zips to another directory (or the current one).  Since this uses the
+'zip' program, it will also update the zips if they already exist.
+
+An example use case (what I needed it for in the first place) is to
+zip up all the individual artists in a 'music' folder
+
+For example:
+$ ./zipDirs.sh ~/Music ~/Music-zipped
+
+The output of that command will be all the dirs within ~/Music are
+zipped and placed into ~/Music-zipped
+(e.g. ~/Music/Something -> ~/Music-zipped/Something.zip)
+
+Created by Sean Hickey (Wisellama), 2014
+Released to the Public Domain under the terms of the Unlicense
+http://unlicense.org/

zipDirs.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script is designed to zip archive all the directories within a
+# given directory (or the current one if unspecified) and output the
+# .zips to another directory (or the current one).  Since this uses
+# the 'zip' program, it will also update the zips if they already
+# exist.
+#
+# An example use case (what I needed it for in the first place) is to
+# zip up all the individual artists in a 'music' folder
+#
+# For example:
+# $ ./zipDirs.sh ~/Music ~/Music-zipped
+#
+# The output of that command will be all the dirs within ~/Music are
+# zipped and placed into ~/Music-zipped
+# (e.g. ~/Music/Something -> ~/Music-zipped/Something.zip)
+#
+# Created by Sean Hickey (Wisellama), 2014
+# Released to the Public Domain under the terms of the Unlicense
+# http://unlicense.org/
+#
+# Now lets begin!
+
+startDir=`pwd`
+
+# the directory that contains all the dirs to be zipped up
+dirToZip=$1
+if [ -z "$dirToZip" ]
+then
+    dirToZip=.
+fi
+
+# the directory where the .zips will be placed
+outputDir=$2
+if [ -z "$outputDir" ]
+then
+    outputDir=.
+fi
+
+# convert to global paths
+if [ ${dirToZip:0:1} != "/" ]
+then
+    dirToZip=$startDir/$dirToZip
+fi
+if [ ${outputDir:0:1} != "/" ]
+then
+    outputDir=$startDir/$outputDir
+fi
+
+# Check if they are indeed directories and
+# create the output dir if it doesn't exist.
+# Side note: I didn't see a good way to negate the '-d' tag, so
+# that's why the first if part is a nop (the ':').
+# (it didn't like using '!' before it, as in [ ! -d "$dir" ])
+if [ -d "$dirToZip" ]
+then
+    :
+else
+    echo "$dirToZip is not a directory, quitting."
+    exit 2
+fi
+if [ -d "$outputDir" ]
+then
+    :
+else
+    if [ -e "$outputDir" ]
+    then 
+        echo "$outputDir is not a directory, quitting."
+        exit 2
+    else 
+        mkdir "$outputDir"
+    fi
+fi
+
+# go to the directory to be zipped up
+cd "$dirToZip"
+
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] 
+then 
+    exit $?
+fi
+
+# zip 'em up
+# ignore any hidden folders
+find . -maxdepth 1 -type d \( ! -iname ".*" \) -exec zip -r "$outputDir/{}.zip" {} \;
+
+
+# May the Llamas spit upon ye.