G'day mrd1019,

Welcome to the Monastery.

"I’m thinking a foreach loop would work?"

Did you try that? If so, what difficulties did you encounter? If not, then give it a go and, if you encounter difficulties, tell us what they are.

"I’m not 100% sure how to go about getting to my end goal."

Again, without knowing what your problem is, it's not really possible to offer a solution.

I'll take a complete guess that you don't know how to generate the "apxxxx.zip" filenames. For this, you'll probably want the sprintf function. Here's an example with printf (which uses the same formats as sprintf): 

$ perl -e 'printf "ap%04d.zip\n", $_ for (0, 1, 234, 1335)'
ap0000.zip
ap0001.zip
ap0234.zip
ap1335.zip

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— Ken

In reply to Re: Create zip files for each sub-directory under a main directory by kcott
in thread Create zip files for each sub-directory under a main directory by mrd1019

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