Command to Bulk Archive / Compress

[undoIT]

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?

[saikee]

You can use tar, or any copy and compress commands, to compress a subdirectory, a directory or the entire partition.

Thus it is really up to you how to define the area you wish to archive.

[folkert]

somewhere on this forum you will find this tread:
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=142840&highlight=zip+directories
Ik think it will help you

[undoIT]

I ended up with this command which will do the bulk archiving and compress using bzip2 for maximum compression :)

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