Command line utility to recursivly Zip a folder

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/**
*  A simple command line utility to zip a folder and subfolder
* 

* Use: java Zip folder zipfilename

* ex: java Zip test test.zip

* 

* 

* @Author :  Bruno Augier
* @version 1.0, 21/07/2007
* @see: http://dzzd.net
*/


import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.File;

public class Zip 
{
    
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
		try 
		{ 
		    String inputDir=args[0];
		    String outputFile=args[1];
		    ZipOutputStream zos = new 
		    ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(outputFile)); 
		    zipDirectory(inputDir, zos); 
		    
		    zos.close(); 
		} 
		catch(Throwable t) 
		{ 
		    t.printStackTrace(System.out);
		}     
	}
    

	public static void zipDirectory(String dir2zip, ZipOutputStream zos) throws Throwable
	{ 
        File zipDir = new File(dir2zip); 
        String[] dirList = zipDir.list(); 
        byte[] readBuffer = new byte[2156]; 
        int bytesIn = 0; 

        for(int i=0; i<dirList.length; i++) 
        { 
            File f = new File(zipDir, dirList[i]); 
	        if(f.isDirectory()) 
	        { 
	            String filePath = f.getPath(); 
	            zipDirectory(filePath, zos); 
	            continue; 
	        }
         
	        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f); 
	        ZipEntry anEntry = new ZipEntry(f.getPath()); 
	
	        zos.putNextEntry(anEntry); 
	        while((bytesIn = fis.read(readBuffer)) != -1) 
	        { 
		zos.write(readBuffer, 0, bytesIn); 
                             } 
        
        	fis.close(); 
    	} 
        }
}
#2

This actually might help me out alot. A while ago, I tried to write a program for backing up my projects. It was supposed to create a zip file. For some reason, it was buggy. Examining your code my help me fix my problem.

I saved it to my desktop and will try fixing my code after I finish my current project.

Thanks for posting this code.

#3

havent tried it, but how does this react to circular links in Linux? i remember that being a real problem for stuff i wrote that did recursife file traversal.

#4

me too :slight_smile: (I mean on linux OS)

if you give it a try let us know what the result!