Linux Command line: recursively overwriting every file with a gzipped version?

Question

______________ myFolder

What can I replace with _____ to recursively gzip every file starting at myFolder and have the gzip be overwrite the file (rename the gzip file to the original filename)?

Answer 1

You could also try

 find myFolder -type f -exec gzip {} \; -exec mv {}.gz {} \;

Answer 2

try:

find myFolder -type f -exec gzip {} +

Answer 3

A simple, not very elegant bash script is to simply cd in, gzip them all in a loop, and mv them back (gzip by default removes the non-compressed file):

#!/bin/bash
cd myFolder
for f in `find ./ -type f`
do
    gzip $f
    mv $f.gz $f
done

Put that in a file called "gzip_and_rename.sh" for example, chmod -775 and run it like ./gzip_and_rename.sh (if running from within myFolder itself, remove the "cd myFolder" line from the script).