I will assume that you are working on a Linux/Unix system.

The short answer, which is my preferred method:
tar -zcvf packagename.tar.gz path_to_directory

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This will 'zip' up everything under directory_name into a single archive packagename.tar.gz, while preserving directory structure (assuming you have the GNU version of tar).

Slightly longer answer:
find path1/* path2/* -exec gzip {} \;

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This will find all files under path1 and path2 (recursively), gzip the files found (and implicitly removing the original files).

Now if you want to do that in a perl script -
...
my @paths = qw! /usr/home/blah  /usr/home/foo !;
system("/usr/bin/find $_/* -exec gzip {} \\;") for @paths;
...

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Or you could use the File::Find module and then invoke 'gzip' for each of the files found.

In reply to Re: How to recursively zip all files insied a directory by Roger
in thread How to recursively zip all files insied a directory by Anonymous Monk

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