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# 1  
Old 04-21-2016
Problem with shell script while spaces encountered in directory names

Hi,
I am having issues with the jar -tf command when I put in the shell script.

The command runs fine from the command line as shown below.

Code:
[root@quickstart Documents]# jar -tf "./VirtualBox Dropped Files/2016-04-17T20:58:49.129139000Z/hive-exec-0.8.1.jar"

But when I put in a shell script(shown below) and the directory name has spaces.In this case "Virtual Box Dropped" has spaces.It gives an error as shown below.

----test1.sh code------
Code:
#!/bin/bash
for jar in `find . -iname '*.jar'`;do
 jar -tf "$jar" > cls.dat
done

Code:
[root@quickstart Documents]# ./test1.sh localrunner

Error:

Code:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: ./VirtualBox (No such file or directory)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:215)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:145)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:116)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.list(Main.java:1004)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:245)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1177)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Dropped (No such file or directory)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:215)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:145)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:116)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.list(Main.java:1004)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:245)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1177)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Files/2016-04-17T20:58:49.129139000Z/hive-exec-0.8.1.jar (No such file or directory)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:215)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:145)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:116)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.list(Main.java:1004)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:245)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1177)

I tried to put the double quote but it doesnt work?

Any ideas?

Thanks


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Mod Comment Please use code tags as required by forum rules!

Last edited by RudiC; 04-21-2016 at 04:23 PM.. Reason: Added code tags, also around error output
# 2  
Old 04-21-2016
Try enclosing the "command substitution" in double quotes.

Last edited by RudiC; 04-21-2016 at 04:40 PM..
# 3  
Old 04-21-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by vinoo128
Hi,
I am having issues with the jar -tf command when I put in the shell script.

The command runs fine from the command line as shown below.

Code:
[root@quickstart Documents]# jar -tf "./VirtualBox Dropped Files/2016-04-17T20:58:49.129139000Z/hive-exec-0.8.1.jar"

But when I put in a shell script(shown below) and the directory name has spaces.In this case "Virtual Box Dropped" has spaces.It gives an error as shown below.

----test1.sh code------
Code:
#!/bin/bash
for jar in `find . -iname '*.jar'`;do
 jar -tf "$jar" > cls.dat
done

Code:
[root@quickstart Documents]# ./test1.sh localrunner

Error:

Code:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: ./VirtualBox (No such file or directory)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:215)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:145)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:116)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.list(Main.java:1004)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:245)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1177)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Dropped (No such file or directory)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:215)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:145)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:116)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.list(Main.java:1004)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:245)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1177)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Files/2016-04-17T20:58:49.129139000Z/hive-exec-0.8.1.jar (No such file or directory)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:215)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:145)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:116)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.list(Main.java:1004)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:245)
    at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1177)

I tried to put the double quote but it doesnt work?

Any ideas?
Thanks
Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use code tags as required by forum rules!
Hello vinoo128,

Could you please try changing your code to as follows and let me know if this helps you.
Code:
 #!/bin/bash
for jar in *.jar
 do
   jar -tf "$jar" > cls.dat
done

because anyways find is looking for the current directories files only. Let me know how it goes for you.

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 4  
Old 04-21-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
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.
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Code:
 #!/bin/bash
for jar in *.jar
 do
   jar -tf "$jar" > cls.dat
done

This will not help with the quoted file having spaces in its name ("VirtualBox Dropped Files"). Enclose *.jar in double quotes.

Quote:
because anyways find is looking for the current directories files only.
.
.
.
You have to take extra measures to confine find to the uppermost directory.
This User Gave Thanks to RudiC For This Post:
# 5  
Old 04-21-2016
Why use a shell loop? Try with find's -exec

Code:
find . -iname '*.jar' -exec jar -tf {} \; > cls.dat


---
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
This will not help with the quoted file having spaces in its name ("VirtualBox Dropped Files"). Enclose *.jar in double quotes.
[..]
Actually it does, because Ravinder used double quotes around the variable expansion "$jar", so spaces will be preserved and *.jar must not be put in double quotes, because the glob expansion will not work then.
Ravinder's approach is correct, but it only works for the current directory...

It even works with multi-line file names:
Code:
$ for i in ./a\ * ; do printf "file:%s:end\n" "$i"; done
file:./a  t:end
file:./a  y:end
file:./a b:end
file:./a multiline file
name.out.txt:end
file:./a z:end

compare with find:
Code:
$ find . -name "a *" -exec printf "file:%s:end\n" {} \;  
file:./a  t:end
file:./a  y:end
file:./a b:end
file:./a multiline file
name.out.txt:end
file:./a z:end
file:./fromdir/a  hg hg:end


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-22-2016 at 01:21 AM..
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# 6  
Old 04-24-2016
Rats, yes. Apologies, RavinderSingh13!
# 7  
Old 07-20-2016
First: `man find` shows there are options for "UNUSUAL FILENAMES" (e.g. filenames with spaces).
Code:
      -print0
              True;  print the full file name on the standard output, followed by a null character (instead of the newline char‐
              acter that -print uses).  This allows file names that contain newlines or other types of white space  to  be  cor‐
              rectly interpreted by programs that process the find output.  This option corresponds to the -0 option of xargs.

Second: using a "for loop" may be dangerous, there can be more results than a Unix line can handle. I would prefer a while loop.
Code:
find . -iname '*.jar' -print0 |while read jar
do
  jar -tf "$jar" >> cls.dat
done

Third: Scrutinizer already mentioned to use the -exec option of the `find` command. To my opinion this is the best method.
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