CBZator

A very simple 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, called my_archive.cbz. 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.