Automator shell script to zip

I'm trying to follow some advice I found to use an automator Finder Plugin to zip selected files and save the zipped files. It's not working. Here's what I'm doing:
1) Open Automator
2) Under Libarary, select Automator.
3) Drag Run Shell Script to Workflow window.
4) Leave Shell = bin/bash, make Pass input = as arguments.
5) Enter code:
for f in "$@"
do
zip -r "$f" "$f"
done
6) Save As Pluging. Name = ZipClean, Plug-in for = Finder.
7) Try it out... no joy. Select one file and right click to Automator -> ZipClean. It seems to go away for a bit of time and come back, but no new zip has been created (really, I searched!).
I know this is a silly script but if I can get this version to work, I'm going to add -x *.DS_Store -x .svn in order to create zips that are not corrupted by osx and svn invisible files and directories.
So bottom line... why isn't the zip file being created and stored? When I do this directly in a terminal window it seems to work ok.
Thanks in advance!
joe

If you plug your shell script into Automator and use a Finder action to pass items to it, it works for a folder but fails for a single file. You might need to tweak the parameters for a plug-in - refer to the zip manual page. You can also use ditto (I posted an AppleScript action earlier using ditto in this reply).

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