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compress directories with .tar extension
Post 302299467 by kanexxx on Friday 20th of March 2009 07:30:44 AM
03-20-2009
Quote:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
DIRECTORY="."
echo -n "Enter the directory path: "
read DIRECTORY
if [[ ! -d $DIRECTORY ]]
then
echo "$DIRECTORY : no such directory"
exit 2
fi
for ITEM in $(ls $DIRECTORY)
do
if [[ -d $ITEM ]]
then
if [[ ! $ITEM = *.tar ]]
then
tar -cvf $ITEM.tar ./$ITEM
fi
fi
done
I want to get myfolder.tar myfolder2.tar myfolder3.tar
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lrztar
LRZTAR.1(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation LRZTAR.1(1) NAME
lrztar - Directory wrapper for lrzip SYNOPSIS
lrztar [options] DIRECTORY lrztar -d [options] DIRECTORY.tar.lrz lrzuntar [options] DIRECTORY.tar.lrz DESCRIPTION
lrztar is a wrapper for compressing and decompressing whole directories with lrzip(1) to corresponding file "DIRECTORY.tar.lrz". lrzuntar is identical to "lrztar -d". lrztar takes the same options as lrzip. OPTIONS
See lrzip(1). ENVIRONMENT
None. FILES
None. SEE ALSO
lrzip.conf(5), lrzuntar(1), lrzip(1), lrunzip(1), lrzcat(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), lzop(1), rzip(1), zip(1) AUTHORS
Program was written by Con Kolivas. This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>. perl v5.14.2 2012-02-08 LRZTAR.1(1)