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I want to tar all directories in a single directory to tar files named after themselves, so for example this directory of directories with tar-all.sh

dir___
 |- dirA
 |- dirB
 |- tar-all.sh

becomes

dir___
 |- dirA.tar.tgz
 |- dirB.tar.tgz
 |- tar-all.sh

Use a for loop:

#!/bin/bash

for f in *
do
 echo "Creating tarball of $f..."
 tar -zcf $f.tar.gz $f
done

Results in:

> ./tar-all.sh
> Creating tarball of tar-all.sh...
> Creating tarball of dirA...
> Creating tarball of dirB...
> DONE!

 |- dirA.tar.tgz
 |- dirB.tar.tgz
 |- tar-all.sh.tar.gz

The following will find and archive all the dir directory's subdirectories (deleting the original subdirectories).

for subdir in dir/*/; do
 dirname="$( basename "$subdir" )"
 ( cd "$dir" && tar -cz -f "$dirname.tgz" "$dirname" && rm -rf "$dirname" )
done

The pattern dir/*/ will only match the pathnames of the subdirectories under dir and no non-directories, due to the / at the end.

Alternatively, using the -C option of tar instead of an explicit cd:

for subdir in dir/*/; do
 dirname="$( basename "$subdir" )"
 tar -cz -f "dir/$dirname.tgz" -C dir "$dirname" && rm -rf "$subdir"
done

Testing:

$ tree
.
`-- dir
 |-- a
 | `-- file
 |-- b
 | `-- file
 |-- c
 | `-- file
 `-- complicated name
 `-- file

5 directories, 4 files

(run any of the two loops here)

$ tree
.
`-- dir
 |-- a.tgz
 |-- b.tgz
 |-- c.tgz
 `-- complicated name.tgz

1 directory, 4 files