Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:53:33 -0700
Bob Proulx <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
Rob Owens <rowens@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I tried this and it successfully creates myfile.zip:

find ./ -iname "*.jpg" -print | zip myfile -@

But it fails if there are spaces in the path or filename. How can I
make it work with spaces?

I think the best way would be to quote them in the pipe:

find ./ -iname "*.jpg" -printf "'%p'\n" | zip myfile -@

But that fails when the filename contains a quote character.

John's Important File

Using zero terminated strings (zstrings) are best for handling
arbitrary data in filenames.

Real Unix(TM) users never put [^[:ascii:]] characters in file names.

Bob

True. Underscores are _wonderful_ things. But remember, Linux is Not Unix!

Unfortunately for the OP, i don't *think* zip accepts zstrings. Perhaps a script to just remove all of the non-ascii characters in the filename of all files in the current directory?

Random tangent, but pascal strings are often more efficient from a programming standpoint than c-style strings...

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