how to zip files that unzipped - shell script

Question

I have a directory that I have been storing a lot of files so I'm working on a script to watch the disk space if it gets more than 80% then it will compress the files.
all the files end with file.# my question is how to zip all files that end with a number without zipping the zipped files
I did the most of the script but I'm stuck with at this point
please your help

Answer 1

You can zip the files that are outputted by this command find. -not -name "*.zip" find. -not -name "*.zip" .

Find is a command that is used well, to "find" files based on various criteria.

You can read more about it using man find or (online version) here

Answer 2

Simply run the zip command with -x argument to exclude already zipped files from being added to the compressed archive. The command will look like:

zip -r compressed.zip . -x "*.zip"