GZip every file separately

Question

How can we GZip every file separately?

I don\'t want to have all of the files in a big tar.

Answer 1

You can use gzip *

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Note:

• This will zip each file individually and DELETE the original.
• Use -k (--keep) option to keep the original files.
• This may not work if you have a huge number of files due to limits of the shell
• To run gzip in parallel see @MarkSetchell's answer below.