Hello,
I am running Solaris 8 and using ksh.  I am trying to add some html
files to an existing zip archive.  The problem is, some of the zip
files contain spaces in the file name.  So when I try

find "$filename" -name "*.html" | xargs zip -r "$basename.zip"

I get a lot of errors ...

zip warning: name not matched: /export/home/dalvorad/Liv
zip warning: name not matched: files
zip warning: name not matched: to
zip warning: name not matched: convert/sh/hst05/IN/no
zip warning: name not matched: dic/page340-1.html
zip warning: name not matched: /export/home/dalvorad/Liv
zip warning: name not matched: files
zip warning: name not matched: to
zip warning: name not matched: convert/sh/hst05/IN/no
zip warning: name not matched: dic/page340-2.html
zip warning: name not matched: /export/home/dalvorad/Liv
zip warning: name not matched: files
zip warning: name not matched: to
zip warning: name not matched: convert/sh/hst05/IN/no

to list a few.  Assuming I can't rename the files I'm looking for, how
could I improve/rewrite the above statement?

Thanks, - Dave

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2004-10-4, 07:29(-07), D. Alvarado:
> Hello,
>    I am running Solaris 8 and using ksh.  I am trying to add some html
> files to an existing zip archive.  The problem is, some of the zip
> files contain spaces in the file name.  So when I try
>
> find "$filename" -name "*.html" | xargs zip -r "$basename.zip"
[...]

/usr/xpg4/bin/find "$filename" -name "*.html" \
-exec zip -r "$basename.zip" {} +

--
Stephane

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D. Alvarado wrote:
> Hello,
>    I am running Solaris 8 and using ksh.  I am trying to add some html
> files to an existing zip archive.  The problem is, some of the zip
> files contain spaces in the file name.  So when I try
>
> find "$filename" -name "*.html" | xargs zip -r "$basename.zip"

I'm not sure if this was implemented in solaris 8 (I've only got access
to solaris 9 - and this feature is available there), but have a look for
find ... -print0 and xargs -0 (zero). These print and parse the file
names null-terminated, so spaces are no longer an issue. (An old GNU
feature which has been in most mainstream uni*s for quite a while now).
To use your example:

find "$filename" -name \*.html -print0 | xargs -0 zip -r "$basename.zip"

($filename should of course be a $directory, but you knew that right? ;-)

Good luck,

Steve

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