complete time saver man, props to you!

thanks so much.

By chance I’ve had some similar needs lately. I wanted to create an archive of the deepest directory inside a structure with different depths (my music folder actually)
But first, you shouldn’t parse ls output.
find $PWD -type d
would be much better. Also, there’s no need to cd in a command or a script.
However, here’s what I did
This nice piece of bit finds the deepest subdirs in a given stack, returning the full path for each one:

find $PWD -type d -exec bash -c ’shopt -s nullglob; d=(“$1″/*/); ((!${#d[@]}))’ _ {} \; -print > /tmp/dirlist

and then run a nice smooth and safe

for i in $(sed ‘1,$!d’ /tmp/dirlist); do tar cvfj “${i##*/}”.tar.bz2 “$i” ; done

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