Create multiple tar.gz archives from multiple directories

Question

I have a directory full of projects inside, let's say /Users/Me/Projects.

Inside of this folder are multiple sub-directories, and even more sub-directories within some of those.

I would like to be able to create a tar.gz archive of each archive within /Users/Me/Projects, the archives of which would have the same name as the directory.

For example, in the Projects folder I'd have, Project1, Project2, and Project3.

What I would like, is to run a script to loop over the directories in Projects and not the sub-directories below that to create Project1.tar.gz, Project2.tar.gz, and Project3.tar.gz.

Answer 1

Without find:

for dir in */; do tar -czvf "${dir%/}".tar.gz "$dir"; done

where */ makes sure that the glob only matches directories, and "${dir%/}" removes the trailing slash from directory names.

If there are hidden directories, they're not matched by */; do get those as well, we can use shopt -s dotglob.

Answer 2

With GNU find:

cd /Users/Me/Projects
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec tar -cvzf {}.tgz {} \;