Create OpenDocument file (odt, ods, etc.) from folder (unzipped OpenDocument file)

folder2od.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Convert folder (unzipped OpenDocument file) to OpenDocument file (odt, ods, etc.)

usage="usage: $(basename "$0") folder file program to create OpenDocument file (odt, ods, etc.) from folder (unzipped OpenDocument file)"

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
	echo "$usage"
	exit 0
else
	if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
		echo "folder not found or not readable"
	    echo "$usage"
	    exit 0
	fi
fi

cmdfolder=$(cd `dirname "$0"`; pwd -P)
folder=$(cd `dirname "$2"`; pwd -P)
file=$(basename "$2")
absfile="$folder/$file"

cd "$1"
# uncompressed mimetype, see section 17.4 MIME Type Stream of OpenDocument v1.0 specification
zip -0 -X "$file" "mimetype"

list=$(cat <<'END_HEREDOC'
meta.xml
settings.xml
content.xml
Pictures/
Thumbnails/
Configurations2/
styles.xml
manifest.rdf
META-INF/manifest.xml
END_HEREDOC
)

for f in $list
do
    zip "$absfile" "$f"
done

cd "$cmdfolder"

More info about mimetype file here http://www.jejik.com/articles/2010/03/how_to_correctly_create_odf_documents_using_zip/

The original discussion here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4957212/how-does-open-office-compress-its-files/16258048#16258048