[SOLVED] how to compress 10 folders to 10 archives by one command

[afeasfaerw23231233]

i need to compress each holder to an archive. it has nearly a hundred folders. how can i do this in a quickest way? i don't want to right click each --> "create archive.." that tooooo slow! thanks!

[hyper_ch]

write a shell script that loops through each directory name and compresses it.

[afeasfaerw23231233]

sorry i don't know how to write a script! noob.....

[sdennie]

Try:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name "." -exec echo "'{}'" \; -exec tar cf '{}.tar' '{}' \;

That will make a tar file for every directory in the directory it's run.

[afeasfaerw23231233]

if i want it to be .zip or .rar then should it be
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name "." -exec echo "'{}'" \; -exec zip cf '{}.zip' '{}' \;

[sdennie]

I'm not familiar with the syntax of zip but, it looks like you understand the find command I posted so, you may want to check the man page for zip and figure out the exact syntax zip uses to create an archive:

man zip

[afeasfaerw23231233]

thanks. problem solved