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bzip2 and tar gz all files in a directory

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For all commands below:

sudo apt-get install moreutils

or on Mac OS X

brew install moreutils

To bzip2 all files in a directory #

  • cd to directory
  • find "$PWD" -type f ! -regex '.*\(bz2\)$' -print0 | ifne xargs -0 bzip2

To tar gzip all directories in a given directory #

  • cd to directory
  • for i in ./*; do test -d "$i" || continue; tar -zcvf "$i".tar.gz "$i"; done

To decompress all bzip2 in a given directory #

  • cd to directory
  • find "$PWD" -type f -regex '.*\(bz2\)$' -print0 | ifne xargs -0 bzip2 -d

To unzip all gzipped tars in a directory #

  • cd to directory
  • tar -xzvf *.tar.gz