Shell script: Create TAR from every sub-directory, de-referencing symlinks

tar_each_directory.sh

for i in ../mydir/*; do
    if [ -L "$i" ]; then
        # Dereference the symlink
        tar cvhf "$(basename "$i").tar" "$i"
    else
        # Regular tar without dereferencing
        tar cvf "$(basename "$i").tar" "$i"
    fi
done

for i in ../mydir/*; do
    if [ -L "$i" ]; then
        # Dereference the symlink
        tar cvhf "$(basename "$i").tar" "$i"
    else
        # Regular tar without dereferencing
        tar cvf "$(basename "$i").tar" "$i"
    fi
done

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