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

To: Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path
From: Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:56:35 +1100
Message-id: <[🔎] 4D2BB8D3.8070008@affinityvision.com.au>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20110111015019.GA10505@aurora.owens.net>
References: <[🔎] 20110111015019.GA10505@aurora.owens.net>

Hi Rob,

Rob Owens 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?


Does this work:

find ./ -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | xargs -0 zip myfile -@

--
Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
Broadband Solutions now including VoIP

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