How to compress multiple folders, each into its own zip archive?

Question

So I want to create a script that enables me to compresses each folder into its own zip archive and not into a one big zip file.

As an example, I've got a directory:

+ MyDirectory/ | | | + Folder_01/ | | | + Folder_02/ | | | + Folder_03/ | 

When I'm done running the script under MyDirectory then I would have a zip file of each Folder which is inside MyDirectory: Folder_01.zip, Folder_02.zip and Folder_03.zip. I know some BASH but this is something I can't figure out.

How can this be done?

Kind regards.

Answer 1

for i in * do [ -d "$i" ] && zip -r "$i.zip" "$i" done 

You walk through all the directories and create zip for each of them.

Or even more concise:

for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done 

(thanks to damienfrancois for suggestion).

Answer 2

here

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