tar and bz2 a set of folders as individual files

for f in *screenflow ; do tar cvf "$f.tar.bz2" "$f"; done
I use screenflow to create and edit videos. The default storage for a single video is a folder. If I want to move that someplace, it's easier to zip up the folder and send it. If I'm making a series of short videos, I might have 10 folders. This will go through and make a single bz3 file for EACH folder.

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By: topher1kenobe
2020-08-02 21:10:27
tar bzip2, gzip, compression,
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This may break if "*screenflow" returns files/folders with weird characters, and it wont' actually compress the tarballs (it'll create them verbosely, but won't compress them).
minnmass · 292 weeks and 2 days ago
Are thoses comments all from Bots or what? This is pretty much a very very (very) basic find command. So much so that i am genuinely curious about comments saying how this is (almost) revolutionary. I maybe was under the impression that "FU" meant some sort of NINJA stuff or, at the very least, not a place where to post manpages examples. Maybe i am wrong. Surely.
oldfart · 290 weeks and 3 days ago

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