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Asked: 2026-06-11T02:35:04+00:00

I need a shell script that basically does this: Searches in a folder for

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I need a shell script that basically does this:

  • Searches in a folder for all the txt files, and for each one it finds, creates a individual zip file with the same of the txt file it found + .zip.
  • After that moves the created zip file to the txt file.

Basically its a script to substitute a list of txt files for its zip equivalent but keeping the same name.

I’ve have used find to find the files that I want to zip:

find . -name '.txt.' -print

The Results are:

./InstructionManager.txt.0
./InstructionManager.txt.1

Those are the files I want to zip individually (of course they will be a lot more), but don’t know how to use them as arguments individually for make commans like:

zip ./InstructionManager.txt.0.zip ./InstructionManager.txt.0
mv ./InstructionManager.txt.0.zip ./InstructionManager.txt.0
zip ./InstructionManager.txt.1.zip ./InstructionManager.txt.1
mv ./InstructionManager.txt.1.zip ./InstructionManager.txt.1

Any Ideas? And no, i don’t want a zip with all the files :S
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  1. Editorial Team
    find . -name '*.txt.*' -print -exec zip '{}'.zip '{}' \; -exec mv '{}'.zip '{}' \;
    • Find the .txt files
    • The first -exec zips the files
    • The second -exec renames the zipped files to the original names

    Note that this procedure overwrites the original files. To be sure that the new files are actual zip files, you can do:

    file InstructionManager.txt.*

    Which should return:

    InstructionManager.txt.0: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
InstructionManager.txt.1: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
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