Question

I need a bash script that prompts the user for a filename within a directory, and if the file/subdirectory exists to gzip them. Directories should be tarred and zipped, files should just be gzipped. This should poll inside of a loop to keep prompting the user until the user ends the script.

Answer 1

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=================== CODE BELOW ================

#!/bin/bash

#### Not giving any condition for infinite loop
while :
do
   #### Taking input and checking if file or directory
   echo "Enter File Name or Directory Name"
   read PASSED
   if [[ -d $PASSED ]]; then
       echo "Zipping the directory"
       tar -cvf test1.tar $PASSED
   elif [[ -f $PASSED ]]; then
       echo "gzipping the file"
       gzip $PASSED
   fi
done

============== SCREENSHOTS BELOW ===================

Activities Terminal Tue 23:07 ujjwal@shadow:-/Desktop/HomeworkLib File Edit View Search Terminal Help (base) ujjwal@shadow:~/Desktop/HomeworkLib$ bash script.sh Enter File Name or Directory Name texti.txt gzipping the file Enter File Name or Directory Name myfile2 Zipping the directory myfile2/ Enter File Name or Directory Name myfile1 Zipping the directory myfile1/ Enter File Name or Directory Name ^C (base) ujjwal@shadow:-/Desktop/HomeworkLib$ ls myfile1 myfile2 script.sh testi.tar_ texti.txt.gz (base) ujjwal@shadow:-/Desktop/HomeworkLib$ I a a