batch - Creating separate archives for a set of files

I have directory containing big list of files. I'd like to gzip each file of a certain mask to a separate archive. How do i do that automatically?

For example here's sample directory contents: - index.html - start.html - myfile1.txt - myfile2.txt - myfile3.txt

How to i create separate archive (myfile1.tar.gz,myfile2.tar.gz ...) for each file starting with 'myfile*' ?

Answer

if you use the bash it could look like this

for file in `ls abc_*`; do tar -czvf $file.tar.gz $file ; done

you simply change the "abc_" to your beginning filename.

Be careful it will re compress the already compressed files, because they start like the normal files.

Best regards Kenny