Shell Programming and Scripting

panyam: Yet again,

xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option

It sounds like your file names have " ' " in it!!..

Did you try with -0 option then?

Code:

ls *.jpg | xargs -0 zip {};

Code:

for i in *.jpg; do zip $i; done

Aju,

This command wont create a single rar file,

For e.g.

I'm having 2 jpg files, and it would create the zip file as below

-rw-rw-rw- 1 user staff 0 Jun 28 16:10 a.jpg
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user staff 0 Jun 28 16:10 b.jpg

-rw-rw-rw- 1 user staff 142 Jun 28 16:10 a.jpg.zip
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user staff 142 Jun 28 16:10 b.jpg.zip

panyam: Returns the same error.

xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option zip error: Nothing to do!

rksiva: zip warning: name not matched

Rksiva: What is does for me is to create a single file. With a extentionless file inside it.

Edit: I'm guessing it may be related to m file name / extension.

So the files I'm trying to zip are not a single word. They got spaces etc. And they are epub file, not JPG

ok,

try with "find option" for files with spaces.

Code:

 
find . -name "*.jpg" -exec zip {} \;

Try this, it will create single file,

Code:

find . -name "*.epub" -print | zip source -@

It will create a zip file called "source.zip" and check out.