How to gzip all files in all sub-directories into one compressed file in bash

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Possible Duplicate    gzipping up a set of directories and creating a tar compressed file       This post describes how to gzip each file individually within a directory structure  However  I need to do something slightly different  I need to produce one big gzip file for all files under a certain directory  I also need to be able to specify the output filename for the compressed file  e g   files gz  and overwrite the old compressed file file if one already exists

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amitchhajer  s post works for GNU tar   If someone finds this post and needs it to work on a NON GNU system  they can do this   tar cvf - folderToCompress   gzip  gt  compressFileName   To expand the archive   zcat compressFileName   tar xvf -

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there are lots of compression methods that work recursively command line and its good to know who the end audience is   i e  if it is to be sent to someone running windows then zip would probably be best   zip -r file zip folder to zip  unzip filenname zip   for other linux users or your self tar is great  tar -cvzf filename tar gz folder  tar -cvjf filename tar bz2 folder    even more compression   change the -c to -x to above to extract   One must be careful with tar and how things are tarred up extracted  for example if I run  cd   tar -cvzf passwd tar gz  etc passwd tar  Removing leading     from member names  etc passwd   pwd    home myusername  tar -xvzf passwd tar gz   this will create  home myusername etc passwd  unsure if all versions of tar do this    Removing leading     from member names

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tar -zcvf compressFileName tar gz folderToCompress   everything in folderToCompress will go to compressFileName  Edit  After review and comments I realized that people may get confused with compressFileName without an extension  If you want you can use  tar gz extension as suggested  with the compressFileName

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