Compression tools that recurse into directories

Question

For future reference, I want to compile a list of compression tools that are able to recurse into directories.

For example, gzip -r <directory> recurses into directories, and compresses every file it finds. On the other hand, zip -r foo.zip foo does not do what I mean - it recurses into the foo directory, and appends all zipped files to a single archive, foo.zip.

These tools don't have a built-in method for recursing into directories:

bzip2

lzma

lrzip

xz

zip

These tools can recurse into directories

gzip (grzip -r)

lrzip (version 0.630)

Are there any tools I missed?

Answer 1

The latest version of lrzip (0.630) does do recursion.

Answer 2

Anything can be made to do that quite easily:

find directory_to_compress -type f -exec compressor -o {}.compressed {} \;