compress folder in rar
 

I wanted to compress each folder in a directory rar or zip, and the files would have to have the name of your folders

To create a zip archive the command is
To crete a rar archive - if you have rar installed
The zip archive preserves the directory structure inside the archive. I don't know how to preserve it using rar archives.

I wanted to do this is automated, because I have about 7000 folders

would be something like?

Yes, it should be. However, the syntax you used (without in) does a loop over the arguments of the script. To specify a list of directories you have to do something like this
this loops over all the folders in the current directory. The parameter substitution ${folder%/} serves to strip out the "/" at the end of the folder name.

I put a leading echo to the rar command for testing purpose. Visualize the commands which will be executed and when you're satisfied with the results, strip out the echo.

Just a note regarding what I previously stated. Actually the rar utility preserves the directory structure inside the archive. I had only to extract by unrar x instead of unrar e.

Perfect, worked certinho, thank you very much.
Whenever I have some doubts in these exchanges of office files to folders.

Attention to echo command, maybe don't work if it is present in CentosOS

you can also change

into
-m0 is minimum compression so zipping is fastest

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...-centos-ubuntu