I wanted to take a folder full of PDF files and create a number of separate zip files, after following the advice on this question everything worked *almost*perfectly. Here's what happened:

When I issued this command in Terminal:

zip -s 5m -r ~/Desktop/invoices ~/Desktop/Invoices/

Everything worked really well, in that I got 11 ZIP files of approximately 5 MB each; placed in the folder specified.

However, the files they outputted were named as follows:

• invoices.z01
• invoices.z02
• invoices.z03
• invoices.z04
• invoices.z05
• invoices.z06
• invoices.z07
• invoices.z08
• invoices.z09
• invoices.z10
• invoices.zip

So as you can see only invoices.zip has been named correctly. I could go through and rename them one by one, but seriously, if we start doing that then what in the name of Evolution are computers for?!

Now, I am also aware that I'm relatively new to the Terminal; so I could be making a very silly mistake somewhere. If that's the case, please be patient :-)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

One last note: I'm quadriplegic so I would like to avoid GUI applications as much as possible, I use voice recognition software you see this working in the Terminal is much much easier.