zip subtitle files recursively on linux

Question

I got 2 main folders Peliculas and Series, as you may guess Peliculas has movies on it (some of them on their own folder, the ones that have more than 1 file) and the folder Series has tv shows.

What I need is a command line or script so I can zip each subtitle ( .srt file) and move it to a folder on the home like ~/MovieSubtitles/We Own The Night.zip and ~/SeriesSubtitles/Masters of Sex S01E11 - Phallic Victories.zip

The folder structure is something like this:

on Movies:

Peliculas
|-10 Things I Hate About You (1999) BRRip 1080p
|-10,000 B.C. (2008) BRRip 1080p
|-10th & Wolf (2006) DvDRip
etc...

on Tv Shows:

Series
|-Anger Management
| |-Anger Management 1x
| |-Anger Management 2x
|-Breaking Bad
| |-Breaking Bad 1x
| |-Breaking Bad 2x
| |-Breaking Bad 3x
etc..

And. Well. I have a lot. Really a lot so I need some script. Can't do it manually and want to keep a backup of each subtitle on the folders mentiones before, so I could upload them and make them available when needed like in the yifi subtitles website

So what I need is to zip each srt on the folder Peliculas recursively and Series also recursively (but in this case on 2 leveles, as each season is also on a subfolder inside the series' folder) , keeping the name of the srt file and place the zip on a folder on my home.

Any ideas?

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Google....ing.?... i came with this solution :

:~$ find /media/peliculas/ -name *.srt -exec zip '{}'.zip ~/subtitulos/peliculas/

(tryed -iname 'srt', -iname '.srt', -name '*srt' and others based on Bendrami's idead and it's all the same)

*find /media/peliculas -name .srt prints out the whole srt files (subtitles) list on the peliculas folder... but as soon as i use -exec

i got the error => find: missing argument to '-exec'

so plz help....

for some extra points.. :P may be best to name the zipfile as the folder containing the srt file as it hast the full name of the movie, the year and the quality.

Answer 1

Put this script in your home directory:

#!/bin/sh
x=`basename $1`
zip $2/${x}.zip $2/${x}
rm $2/${x}

Then run

find /path/to/subtitles -iname '*srt' -exec ~/yourscript.sh {} /path/to/zip/directory

If you have any collisions it will prompt you what to do.

Answer 2

I got it to work this way with 2 lines..

1)

 find  -name *.srt -exec  zip -D9 '{}'.zip '{}' \;

what this does is find any SRT (subtitle file) inside the folder u execute it.. in my case.... /media/peliculas (wich holds all my movies) and best-compress it without the directory entries (It doesn't add trash but it adds the movie folder... worked for me at the end.. would like to polish it ) each srt on his own zip file called as the srt file... so the subtitle from Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb it's saved on a zipfile called Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.srt.zip

2)

find -name '*.zip' -exec mv '{}' ~/subtitulos/peliculas/ \;

and this.. the last part... well it moves all the zip files to a folder in my home where i'll hold the zipped subs.. and upload them to subtitles websites...