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Re: compressing and password protect file group individually?

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On 06/03/2026 21:40, JR Dolobson wrote:
> In Ubuntu, right now I'm selecting each individual file (left 
> clicking), right clicking and choosing compress, keeping same file 
> name, and then entering password, then create but this is going to 
> take a long time for well over a hundred files!  I don't want to 
> create a new archive name for the group as this will mean that all 
> would have to be unzipped later.  I just want to keep original file 
> names.  thanks


Try this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
for f in *; do [[ -f "$f" && ! "$f" =~ \.gz$ ]] && gzip -9 "$f"; done

,gz doesn't support passwords!

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