bin/gzball

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 # create tar.gz archives and remove original dirs
   3 # usage: gzball [-q] DIR [DIR] ...
   4
   5 ECHO="echo"
   6
   7 # be totally quite with -q argument
   8 if [ "$1" == "-q" ] ; then
   9   TAR="tar czf"
  10   shift
  11 else
  12   TAR="tar cvzf"
  13 fi
  14
  15 # bail on first error
  16 set -e
  17
  18 for p in "$@" ; do
  19   $ECHO "$p.tar.gz"             # what we're building
  20   $TAR "$p.tar.gz" "$p"         # create tar.gz archive
  21   touch -r "$p" "$p.tar.gz"     # update modified time to match original DIR
  22   rm -rf "$p"                   # remove original dir
  23 done