Usage: arcdir /PATH It tarball ALL subdirectories under the and moves the originals to the Trash First, install these from homebrew: brew install trash brew install pigz

arcall.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Archive all of the children directories of a directory into compressed tar files
# and prepare a text file that lists all of the files in each archive.
# Therefore, for directories foo ane bar, produce 
# foo.tar.bz2, foo.tar.txt, bar.tar.bz2, and bar.tar.txt.

###
# The trash command is OS X specific ane requires a 3rd party tool - 
# brew install trash
# brew install pigz
###

if [ -d "$1" ]; then
  cd "$1"
  for f in */; do 
    if [ -d "$f" ]; then
      echo "Compressing and preparing a file listing $f..."
      tar --use-compress-program=pbzip2 -cf "${f%/}.tar.bz2" "$f" && tar  -jtvf "${f%/}.tar.bz2" > "${f%/}.tar.txt" && trash "$f"
    fi
  done
fi