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LordSherman
LordSherman

Reputation: 33

zip I/O error: No such file or directory error when directory exists?

I am not sure why I am getting this output as I believe I am hopefully doing it correctly. I ran this script a few hours ago just testing some things and it worked just fine I had thought. I was able to zip the target with no errors.

The current directory is the proper folder containing the target file. The script is as follows:

#! /usr/bin/bash

echo Zipping Backup

zip -r "backup-$(date +"%D-%H-%M-%S").zip" test

There is just a simple empty folder in the directory named test. Here is the exact output running this script:

Zipping Backup
zip I/O error: No such file or directory
zip error: Could not create output file (backup-05/11/20-20-15-04.zip)

Wondering what sort of novice thing I may be overlooking here.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4173

Answers (1)

phd
phd

Reputation: 94435

backup-05/11/20-20-15-04.zip

The problem is obviously in slashes which are path separators. There is no directory backup-05/11/ hence the error. Fix your format:

date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S"

without slashes.

Upvotes: 2

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