Zip an entire directory before save keepin the data

[Shermaine]

Hi I would like to zip a directory of files while using "gzip *.*" or "ls | xargs gzip"
both prompted me arg list too long.
Can someone kindly advise me on how o overcome this. Thank you!

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Why zip all the files seperately?

# tar cvf - *.* | gzip -9 > ../archived.tgz

If you still want to do every file on itself

# find . -type file -name '*.*' -exec gzip -9 {} \;

but that will also go into subfolders

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Merijn's gave you the tar solution. You could try somethink like this.

# ls | while read LINE
do
gzip $LINE
done

Robert-Jna

[sam_111]

hi,

using tar would be the best.

regards,

sam