Blonde moment (gzip)

[meghatronic]

How go I gzip the contents of a directory as seperate files in *nix?

e.g. dir contents = 1.a, 2.b, 3.c becomes 1.a.gz, 2.b.gz etc.....

I've done this countless times and feel pretty dumb now!

Obviously "gzip *.*" works, but this gzips the existing files.. I want a compressed copy. (there are 11Gb of files)

 

[AndrewP]

for i in `ls`; do tar -zcvf $i "$i.tar.gz"; done

Should do the trick

 

[meghatronic]

funnily it was just the "; done" I was missing....

Cheers!