BASH - Archiving Directories

Archive Directories

#!/bin/bash

# Loop through all directories within the current directory
# tar and gzip all files into a single tarball file
for dir in *
do
    if [ -d "${dir}" ] then
        echo "archiving ${dir} with tar -zcvf"
        echo "tar -zcvf \"${dir}\".tar.gz \"${dir}\""
        dest=`echo ${dir} | tr -t '[ ]' '[_]'`
        echo "dest is now ${dest}"
        tar -zcvf "${dest}".tar.gz "${dir}"
        rm -rf "${dir}"
    fi
done