Bash – How to Gzip Multiple Subdirectories into Separate Archives

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How would I be able to compress subdirectories into separate archives?

Example:

directory
 subdir1
 subdir2

Should create subdir1(.tar).gz and subdir2(.tar).gz

This small script seems to be your best option, given your requirements:

cd directory
for dir in */
do
  base=$(basename "$dir")
  tar -czf "${base}.tar.gz" "$dir"
done

It properly handles directories with spaces in their names.

Putting every file into a separate tar file doesn't make any sense in this scenario. You can use gzip to compress them directly:

gzip *

will result in file1.out.gz, file2.out.gz etc.

You would use tar only if you would need a compressed archive as a single file.

If you ineed need a tar archive for every file, you can create it like so:

for i in *; do tar -czf $i.tar.gz $i; done