From f974cbc10f96fd4d5960418f0794d892e5ab5641 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alex A. Naanou" <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 09:19:28 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] added archive compression support...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/compress-archive.sh | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 scripts/compress-archive.sh

diff --git a/scripts/compress-archive.sh b/scripts/compress-archive.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..715a8ec0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/compress-archive.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# TODO make this runnable from anywhere...
+#	- prepend paths with './' only if local/relative
+
+BASE_PATH=.
+
+ARCH="bzip2 -v {}"
+
+EXT=ARW
+
+# HACK: this is here to avoid using windows find...
+PATH=/bin:$PATH
+
+
+
+printhelp(){
+	echo "Usage: `basename $0` [ARGUMENTS] [PATH]"
+	echo
+	echo "Arguments:"
+	echo "	-h --help	- print this help and exit."
+	echo
+	echo "	-bzip2		- use bzip2 to compress (default)."
+	echo "	-gzip		- use gzip to compress."
+	echo
+	echo "	-ext EXT	- set file extension to compress (default: ARW)"
+	echo "			  NOTE: only one -ext is supported now".
+	echo
+}
+
+# process args...
+while true ; do
+	case $1 in
+		-h|--help)
+			printhelp
+			exit
+			;;
+
+		# archivers...
+		-bzip2)
+			ARCH=bzip2 -v \{}
+			shift
+			;;
+		-gzip)
+			ARCH=gzip -v \{}
+			shift
+			;;
+
+		# extension to compress...
+		--ext)
+			EXT=$2
+			shift
+			shift
+			;;
+
+		*)
+			break
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+# get path...
+if [ $1 ] ; then
+	BASE_PATH="$1"
+fi
+
+
+
+# do the work...
+find $BASE_PATH -name \*.${EXT} -exec ${ARCH} \;
+
+
+
+# vim:set nowrap nospell :