zip error - Nothing to do
To create a zipfile:
From a list of files,
zip myZippedImages.zip alice.png bob.jpg carl.svg
. You need to specify both- the zipfile (output), and
- the files you will zip (input).
From a folder,
zip -r myZippedImages.zip images_folder
To make it clearer than Alex's answer, to create a zip file, zip takes in a minimum of 2 arguments. How do I know, because when you use man zip
, you get its man page, part of which is:
zip [-aABcdDeEfFghjklLmoqrRSTuvVwXyz!@$] [--longoption ...] [-b path]
[-n suffixes] [-t date] [-tt date] [zipfile [file ...]] [-xi list]
and when you typed zip
in the command line, you get:
zip [-options] [-b path] [-t mmddyyyy] [-n suffixes] [zipfile list] [-xi list]
In both cases, notice [zipfile list]
or [zipfile [file ...]]
. The square brackets indicate something being optional. If you're not saving to a zipfile, then the list
argument is not required.
If you want to save into a zipfile (choosing the [zipfile list]
option, you need to also provide list
, because it is within the square brackets. For this reason, I prefer the output of zip
instead of man zip
. (The man page might be confusing)
The issue is that you have not provided a name for the zip-files it will create.
find /home/user/rep/tests/data/archive/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -exec zip -r "{}" "{}" \;
This will create separate zipped directories for each of the subfolders tmp
tmp_dkjg
and tmp_dsf
If you used zip command on a zip file you will see that error. make sure you are using zip on none zip version file, otherwise use unzip