[CentOS] tar-ing subdirectories separately

[Leonard den Ottolander]

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.

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