CBZator

A basic bash script to convert folders of images into a single cbz archive.

Dependencies

Only zip and unzip packages (and coreutils).

Usage

./cbzator.sh [-h] [--merge <input_cbz> <folder_to_add>] [<input_directory> <output_directory>]

Creation mode

To generate a cbz archive from images in input directory: ./cbzator.sh in_dir out_dir.

• in_dir must be a folder containing .jpg files OR a folder of folders containing .jpg files. It won't work as expected if the folder contains a mixture of folders and images. To use with .png just edit the script. Note that sort -V is used to determine image/folder ordering.
• out_dir is the path where the script will place the resulting archive, named after the input folder. If this file already exists, it will ask for confirmation before deleting it. The script will also create a temporary directory temp which will be removed when finished. If the folder already exists, the script will overwrite its content.

Append mode

You can also add images to a previously generated archive by specifying option -m or --merge. Images will be appended to the previous one. The new images are sorted with sort -V and the output file with name my_archive.cbz will be placed in the same folder as the file given in input. If the file already exists, it is replaced.

Example: ./cbzator.sh -m path_to_file.cbz new_images_dir.

Folder new_images_dir must have the same format as in_dir described above.