Zip Folder (& Sub-Folders) & Move to Trash

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MACRO:   @ZIP T -- Zip Folder (& all Sub-Folders) & Move to TRASH

VER: 2.0    2016-12-22 ~~~

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If you do find an issue, and/or have a suggestion for improvement, please feel free to post below.

Continuing the discussion from Creating a zip file and recursing through subfolders:

Building on the great macro/script provided by @rjames86 in the above post, I have built (after many iterations with his advice), a macro I now think worthy of general consumption.

The key points of this macro are:

  1. It creates a zip file of the source folder, and all of its files and sub-folders.
  • The name of the zip file is the name of the source folder.
  • It retains all of the folder structure.
  1. It does a zip integrity check to ensure that the zip was successful.
  2. Only then, if the zip was successful, does it move the source Folder to the Mac Trash.

Example Results

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ReleaseNotes

HOW TO USE:

  1. Select one or more FOLDERs in the Finder
    • Each Folder wll be put in a separate Zip file
  2. Trigger this Macro

MACRO SETUP

  1. Move Macro to Group which limits activation to Finder
  2. Assign a Trigger of your choice (default is Status Menu)

KEY POINTS

  1. It creates a zip file of the source folder, and all of its files and sub-folders.
  • The name of the zip file is the name of the source folder.
  • It retains all of the folder structure.
  1. It does a zip integrity check to ensure that the zip was successful.
  2. Only then, if the zip was successful, does it move the source Folder to the Mac Trash.

RESULTS:

  • Each Folder will be put in a separate Zip file.
  • IF the Zip file was created successfully, with integrity, then the source Folder was moved to the Mac Trash
  • A Report will be displayed providing details.

Author: @rjames86 -- Original Macro/Script as shown below
@JMichaelTX -- this macro based on the one by @rjames86

WARNING!

The Folder selected in the Finder will be MOVED TO TRASH, IF the Zip was successful.

If the Zip File already exists, it will be OVERWRITTEN.

REFERENCE

Topic: Creating a zip file and recursing through subfolders
Forum: Keyboard Maestro Discourse, general

Post by: rjames86
Post Date: 2016-12-22
Script Lang: Bash
Post URL: Creating a zip file and recursing through subfolders

If you want to change the name of the zip file,

  • just set a new variable in KM and
  • then change the line to
    zip -rm "$KMVAR_<thevarname>" "$BASE"

where <thevarname> is the name of your variable

For a detailed, step-by-step description of the script, see:
The above post by rjames86

TESTING

I have tested this a fair amount using:
Keyboard Maestro 7.3.1 (7.3.1) on macOS 10.11.4

and have not found any bugs or issues.

However, if you do find an issue, and/or have a suggestion for improvement, please post below.

Bash Shell Script

SAVE_DIR=`dirname "$KMVAR_ZIP__Folder"`
BASE=`basename "$KMVAR_ZIP__Folder"`
BASE_NO_EXT=${BASE%.*}

pushd "$SAVE_DIR"

zip -rT "$BASE_NO_EXT" "$BASE"

if [[ `unzip -tq "${BASE_NO_EXT}.zip"` =~ "No errors detected" ]]; 
then
    osascript -e 'tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to setvariable "ZIP__NoErrors" to "true"';
else
    osascript -e 'tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to setvariable "ZIP__NoErrors" to "false"';
fi

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