diff --git a/zip_fb2_2.pl b/zip_fb2_2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# this script compress all *.fb2 files in current directory with zip
+#
+
+use strict;
+use warnings "all";
+use Archive::Zip qw(:ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS);
+
+sub zlist(@);
+
+my @list;
+my @dirlist;
+opendir DIR, "." || die;
+@dirlist = readdir(DIR);
+closedir(DIR);
+
+foreach (@dirlist){
+	if ((-f $_) and ($_ =~ /\.fb2/)){ push @list, $_; }
+}
+
+@dirlist = -1; undef @dirlist;
+zlist(@list);
+exit 0;
+
+sub zlist(@){
+	my @list = @_;
+	my $item;
+
+	foreach $item (@list)  {
+		my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();
+		Archive::Zip::setChunkSize( 262144 );
+		my $zippy = $zip->addFile($item);
+
+		if (defined($zippy)) {
+			$zippy->desiredCompressionMethod( COMPRESSION_DEFLATED );
+			$zippy->desiredCompressionLevel( COMPRESSION_LEVEL_BEST_COMPRESSION );
+
+			if ( $zip->writeToFileNamed("$item.zip") == AZ_OK ) {
+				unlink($item);
+				syswrite STDOUT, ".";
+			} else {
+				printf ("Warning: unable to write to %s.zip\n", $item);
+			}
+		} else {
+			printf ("Warning: unable to add %s to zip-file\n", $item);
+		}
+
+		undef $zip;
+		undef $zippy;
+	}
+
+	undef $item;
+	@list = -1; undef @list;
+}