Find files and tar them (with spaces)

Question

Alright, so simple problem here. I\'m working on a simple back up code. It works fine except if the files have spaces in them. This is how I\'m finding files and adding th

Answer 1

If you have multiple files or directories and you want to zip them into independent *.gz file you can do this. Optional -type f -atime

find -name "httpd-log*.txt" -type f -mtime +1 -exec tar -vzcf {}.gz {} \;

This will compress

httpd-log01.txt
httpd-log02.txt

to

httpd-log01.txt.gz
httpd-log02.txt.gz