compressing directories

[RJSHA1]

Hi there I would like to compress a range of diretories, and have been trying to use a find statement like this

compress `find . - type d -mtime +2 -print`

As you can guess this does not work, I don't know sed or awk very well - should I be using them.

Can someone please point what I amm doing wrong or what else I should try

Thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

I don't think this will work. What I would suggest would be to tar the directories and then compress the tar files, removing the original directories once you're satisfied that the tars are valid. HTH.