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How do I create individual tars of a all the directories in a directory? I have a directory called 'patients', each patient has a directory in the patients directory. I want to create tars such that each patient has their own tar file.

Thanks!

Try:

Code:

for p in patients/*; do                                                   
    pd=`basename "$p"`
    tar -C patients -cf "$pd".tar "$pd"
done

Yazu,
Thank you for the suggestion. It works great. Is there a way to have the folders tarred with relative paths?

Here is the script I have so far:

Code:

for p in /FOCUS/rtp99/0/*; do                                                   
   pd=`basename "$p"`
   tar -C /FOCUS/rtp99/0 -czvf "$pd".tgz "$pd"
done

It would be great if I could set it so that when it untars it only untars the files with the relative directory. For instance if my patient folder is A1000156, if I untar it it becomes:

/FOCUS/rtp99/0/A1000156

The reason I want to do this is because I tar it from one directory and untar it in another. It is a way of moving files form one of our clinics to another. So when I try to untar it into say the "1" directory it becomes:

/FOCUS/rtp99/1/FOCUS/rtp99/1/A1000156

Maybe if I place the script itself in the /FOCUS/rtp99/0/ directory and take out the "-C /FOCUS/rtp99/0"?

Thanks!!

HP

switch

Code:

tar -C patients -cf "$pd".tar "$pd"

to

Code:

tar -cf "$pd".tar patients/"$pd"

If I do that will I will need to place the script in the patients directory?

No.