Hello Johan, On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 14:51 -0600, Johan Martinez wrote: > I want to backup a directory using tar, but want separate tarballs for > each subdirectory. For example: # ls dir1 > subdir1 subdir2 subdir3 Use find(1) for such cases. $ find <dir> -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec tar cz {} -f {}.tgz \; Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research