Compress files containing only spaces and no file extension

fixit · 2022-10-12 01:50:12

I have been using this custom action.

But for a project I needed to rename some .png files to filenames using only spaces and no extension.

zip -u -j %n.zip %F

But now it does not zip those files?

Any fix?

PaperNick · 2022-10-12 06:36:31

Hey, the problem is that files containing only spaces break the zip command as currently defined.

A possible solution would be to check whether the %n param is empty and provide a default archive name.

zipname="$(echo %n | xargs)"; zip -u -j "${zipname:-Archive}".zip %F

Breaking down how it works:
1. We assign the %n value to a variable and trim any leading whitespace using xargs
2. Through bash parameter expansion we provide a default value in case zipname is empty - Archive

fixit · 2022-10-12 21:26:48

Thanks PaperNick.

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Compress files containing only spaces and no file extension

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Re: Compress files containing only spaces and no file extension

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