How to auto zip all folders in linux ?

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a simple command that will automatically <b>find </b>and <b>zip </b>any folder/directory to the same name in a directory recursively</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">example of folders under /opt/ :- </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apache_logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sendmail_logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Qmail_logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To :- </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apache_logs.zip</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sendmail_logs.zip</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Qmail_logs.zip</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Solution :-</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cd to location let say :- </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[root@amitmaheshwari.in opt]</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"># cd /opt</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[root@amitmaheshwari.in opt]# ls -l</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">total 16</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  6 14:35 Apache_logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  6 14:35 logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  6 14:35 Qmail_logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  6 14:35 Sendmail_logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[root@amitmaheshwari.in opt]#<span style="color: blue;"> find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name ".*" -exec bash -c 'zip -r "$0.zip" "$0"' {} \;</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[root@amitmaheshwari.in opt]# ls -l</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">total 32</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  6 14:35 Apache_logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  174 Aug  6 14:36 <b>Apache_logs.zip</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  6 14:35 logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  160 Aug  6 14:36 <b>logs.zip</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  6 14:35 Qmail_logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  172 Aug  6 14:36 <b>Qmail_logs.zip</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  6 14:35 Sendmail_logs</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  178 Aug  6 14:36 <b>Sendmail_logs.zip</b></span>

How to auto zip all folders in linux ?

Here is a simple command that will automatically find and zip any folder/directory to the same name in a directory recursively example of ...

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