#!/bin/sh

# arcives some files/directories 
# and compress  gzip, bzip2, xc, lzma
# and count times

ARCHIVE="${1}.tar"

echo "Archiving files..."
time tar cf $ARCHIVE $* 
echo ""

for comp in gzip bzip2 xz lzma 
  do echo Compressing $ARCHIVE by ${comp} ...
  time $comp -c $ARCHIVE >${ARCHIVE}.$comp 
  echo ""
done

mv ${ARCHIVE}.bzip2 ${ARCHIVE}.bz2
mv ${ARCHIVE}.gzip ${ARCHIVE}.gz