bash - script to compress user files via searching through folders for certain folder name -

i'm writing function 1 of programs need search through number of folders until find folder called "userfiles" tar folder giving filename of folder found in. below approach best way go?

compress(){ name=$(cat $user_home/server.txt | sed -e "s/ //g") users=/var/www/home/user/area/*/*/*/ ids=${pwd##*/}  # apache logs tar -zcvf logs-$name.tar.gz /var/log/apache2  # user logs  in $users;                        if [ ! -d "userfiles" ];                                                       tar -zcvf userfiles-$name-"$ids".tar.gz  $users                fi  done;  # linux logs tar -zcvf linux-logs-$name.tar.gz /var/log/auth.log* /var/log/syslog* /var/log/kern.log* /var/log/mail.log*   } 

this code:

for in $users;        if [ ! -d "userfiles" ];               tar -zcvf userfiles-$name-"$ids".tar.gz  $users     fi done; 

won't described should do. instead, if folder userfiles not exist in current working directory, tar all user folders multiple times.

try this:

for d in $users;   if [ -d "${d}userfiles" ];     tar -zcvf "userfiles-$name-$ids.tar.gz" "${d}userfiles"   fi done