find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*' ! -name '.' -execdir sh -c '7z a -mx9 -mmt <destination-path>/"$1".7z "$1"' : {} \;

For example, if I wanted to compress each directory into a 7z archive and have them placed in the folder ~/backups (where ~ gets substituted for the current users home directory, so for me would equate to /home/r3dux), I could use:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*' ! -name '.' -execdir sh -c '7z a -mx9 -mmt ~/backups/"$1".7z "$1"' : {} \;

Hope this helps.

The fix for this is to tell find to only traverse 1 directory deep (-maxdepth 1 – keep this as the first parameter specifed or find will complain), and then also tell it to exclude the current directory we’re running the command in (! -name ‘.’).

The end result to compress all subdirectories in the directory where you run the command then becomes:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*' ! -name '*.7z' ! -name '.' -execdir sh -c '7z a -mx9 -mmt "$1".7z "$1"' : {} \;

But this will also exclude any directories that end with .7z, which you’re unlikely to have, so a better version is:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*' ! -name '.' -execdir sh -c '7z a -mx9 -mmt "$1".7z "$1"' : {} \;

Cheers!

for %f in (*.adf) do echo %~nf

Just saving this info here for future reference!

Finally got some free time to have a look at your question – the following line will do the job, and will deal with spaces in filenames just fine:

find . -type f -name '*' ! -name '*.7z' -execdir sh -c '7z a -mx9 -mmt "$1".7z "$1"' : {} \;

The above will compress all files (except ones ending in .7z) in all directories to their own unique archives in whatever directory they’re currently in, so “./some documents/some doc.txt” will become “/some document/some doc.txt.7z” – which is what I think you were after…

All the best,
r3dux

Sorry for resurrecting an old topic, but I’ve been trying to modify the one liner to compress all files in all directories, including subdirectories, using 7zip but I can’t get it to work.

I’m a total novice and don’t really understand how any of this works. Here’s my failed stab at modifying the one liner:

find . -type f -name ‘*.*’ -execdir sh -c ’7z a -mx9 -mmt -tbzip2 %1.bz2 %1′ : {} \;

Would anyone be able to help?

Thanks.

As a quick & dirty batch file method, you could use this:

@ECHO OFF
FOR /F %%f IN ('dir /b .\*.%1') DO echo Compress %%f to %%f.zip or something here...

Copy & paste the above two lines of code into a new batch file, maybe “compress.bat”, then run it and pass it an extension like “compress doc” to compress all files in the current directory with the extension .doc.

After the DO part, you’d want to put something like “pkzip a %%f %%f.zip” or the like instead of the simple echo I’ve put above.

Cheers!