Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files

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— Cory

Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files:

for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done

I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!