How to GZip every file separately

Question

Easy and fast question, I just don't want to have all of them in a big tar :-)

Answer 1

Try a loop

$ for file in *; do gzip "$file"; done

Answer 2

You can use gzip *

Answer 3

If you want to gzip every file recursively, you could use find piped to xargs:

$ find . -type f | xargs gzip