cbz-create

A Bash script that zips up multiple folders containing image files (extensions .jpg, .jpeg, .gif or .png) into .cbz archives.

Installation:

Put the script file anywhere you like, make sure it's executable and away you go! Personally, I like to put custom scripts in /opt/scripts and then create symlinks in /usr/local/bin, making sure that location is included in PATH.

$ sudo cp -p cbz-create.sh /opt/scripts/cbz-create.sh
$ sudo chmod 755 /opt/scripts/cbz-create.sh
$ sudo ln -s /opt/scripts/cbz-create.sh /usr/local/bin/cbz-create

Usage:

Either

$ <path>/cbz-create.sh [<directory>...]

or

$ cbz-create [<directory>...]

depending on your installation location and method as per the Installation section above. Examples from here on will assume the second version. Can be used in a number of ways.

Explicit Folder Locations

$ cbz-create ~/Pictures/Example\ Comic

Assuming that ~/Pictures/Example\ Comic is a folder containing images, it creates the output file Example Comic.cbz in ~/Pictures.

Globbed

$ ls ~/Pictures
Beach/          Manga 1/          Manga 2/
Miscellaneous/  Unsorted/
$ cbz-create ~/Pictures/Manga*/

Using Bash expansion, this example would create .cbz files at ~/Pictures from any sub-folders that have names beginning with "Manga" and name them accordingly.

Without Arguments

$ cd ~/Pictures
$ ls
Beach/          Manga 1/          Manga 2/
Miscellaneous/  Unsorted/
$ cbz-create

Running the script without arguments will cause it to attempt to create .cbz files of every sub-directory at your current location. As this could potentially be messy if done by accident, the script will first prompt you to confirm that you meant to run it without arguments before attempting to do so.

Customisation:

Since version 2.2, the script now contains a variable at the top named "EXTENSIONS" which can be edited to expand the list of file extensions searched.