Command to Bulk Compress All Files / Folders Under a Directory

Question

I'm looking for a command that will compress every folder within a directory separately with the name of each archive reflecting the original folder name. I know that

tar czvf example.tar.gz example/

will compress an entire folder. However, I have not found a command to bulk archive. Is there such a command?

Answer 1

find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec tar czf {}.tar.gz {} \;

Note that I used -maxdepth 1.

Consider the directory structure:

.
|-- a
|   `-- x
|-- b
`-- c

Without -maxdepth 1 you would get a.tar.gz and a/x.tar.gz. a.tar.gz would contain x and all of the files within; and a/x.tar.gz would contain x and its files. But this stores the items within x twice, assuming that isn't the goal.

Updated to use -mindepth 1 as well, because when run outside of example/ an example.tar.gz would be created as well.

Update ... and for bzip2:

find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec tar cjf {}.tar.bz2 {} \;

Answer 2

for f in `find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do
    tar -czf $f.tar.gz $f
done

Answer 3

Okay, here's the final command I came up with to archive then compress with bzip2 for maximum compression

find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec tar cjf '{}'.tar.bz2 '{}' \;

thanks everyone!