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Here is an example of a loop that will compress and send how ever many files are found to another server.

!/bin/bash

first_list=’/ [path] / [to] / [files] / *.*’
for raw in $first_list
do
gzip -9 $raw
done

second_list=’/ [path] / [to] / [files] / *.gz’
for gz in $second_list
do
scp $gz [user] @ [destination hostname/ip]:/ [path] / [to] / [destination] / [directory]

if [ $? != 0 ]; then
{
echo `eval date +%x` `eval date +%X` ” – transfer failed: “$gz >> / [path] / [to] / [files] / results / fail.txt
exit 1
}
fi

echo “transfer complete: “$gz >> / [path] / [to] / [files] / results / success.txt
# uncomment below to remove file once sent
# rm -f $gz
done

This is a great site to use (in addition to this one) for some more bash scripting help.

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/