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Create tar of all folders

This command creates one archive per direct subfolder in the current directory.

Compressed archives

Section titled “Compressed archives”
Terminal window
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec tar -czvf "{}.tar.gz" "{}" \;

Uncompressed archives

Section titled “Uncompressed archives”
Terminal window
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec tar -cvf "{}.tar" "{}" \;