I agree that the gnu tools are probably more of a help here than Perl, but I do have some comments on your examples, for the don't really seem to do what the OP asked for (if I understand the post right).

tar -zcvf packagename.tar.gz path_to_directory

This creates a single file, as you state, but the OP is looking for multiple gzip files.

find path1/* path2/* -exec gzip {} \;

This will fail too, for the OP states that there are sub directories ;) This will probably work better:

find path/ -type f -exec gzip {} \;

[download]

The problem with this is that a new process will be started for each file (IIRC). Not very efficient if there are a lot of files. So, to change it a little bit more, I would go for the following approach:

find path/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 gzip

[download]

Do note the -print0 and -0. If the files contain spaces, and you leave this out, weird things may happen ;)

HTH

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b10m

In reply to Re: How to recursively zip all files insied a directory by b10m
in thread How to recursively zip all files insied a directory by Anonymous Monk

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