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Jason Zhang
Jason Zhang

Reputation: 13

Processing files with spaces in their name

I have many big csv files under many folders and the file and folder have spaces in their names.

I now have the code below but it doesn't work when the file/folder has spaces in the name:

csv=$(find . -name "*.csv")

for f in $csv; do
  echo "Compressing $f"
  (cd $(dirname $f) && zip -j $(basename $f.zip) $(basename $f))
done

Upvotes: 1

Views: 155

Answers (1)

o11c
o11c

Reputation: 16076

Have find execute zip itself, since it still knows about all the spaces:

find -name '*.csv' -exec zip -j {}.zip {} \;

A direct port of what you wrote would use -execdir in place of -exec, but it appears not to be necessary.

Upvotes: 1

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