Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> 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
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