Creating individual zip files from folders inside a directory

I recently ran into a situation where I needed to make individual zip files from folders inside a directory. I was able to find a lot of guidance for one big zip file, but I needed each folder to have its own zip file for archiving purposes. I also wanted good compression, resource fork preservation, and be able to run a command that would search the directory and make zips for each folder it found. (The last requirement was because I didn’t want to run the command individually on the 137 folders that I needed to make archives of.)

Fortunately, I was finally able to find a way to use ditto to do what I wanted. This command will search a particular directory, check for folders and use ditto to make compressed zip archive files:

for f in /path/to/directory/*; do ditto -c -k -X “$f” “$f.zip”; done

This command uses the folder’s name when saving the zip archive, so a “folderA” inside the directory will be compressed as “folderA.zip”