Remove space from a zip file

karan4141 · 02-04-2013, 04:51 AM

Hi Team,

I have an requirment from functional pepole they have some zip file & want to unzip this file & thn remove space from tge file name & than zip this file again.
For Example:- I have file name like "T002 20130131.zip" Now i ahve to perform below steps
1:- unzip this file "T002 20130131.zip" (Unzip T002 20130131.zip)

As per me unix take ot two diffrent nae & can't unzip this file
2:- After unzip we get file "T002 20130131"
now we have to remove the space between "T002" & "20130131" . The output should be "T00220130131"
3:- Now again zip this file "T00220130131.zip" & copy to a specfic location.

Is this possible in Linux?

goumba · 02-04-2013, 05:55 AM

Found this snippet on the web that may help you (credit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...n-file-names):

Code:

- unzip the file into a directory, say ~/tmp (replace ~/tmp with the directory you unzipped to)

- find ~/tmp -depth -name "* *" -execdir rename 's/ /_/g' "{}" \;

- zip the files back up

Even though that expression in the find command is looking for a filename with one space, it will replace all spaces in filenames. If you don't want an underscore to replace the space, replace it with what character (or nothing at all) you want.

If you have several such files, you could write yourself a shell script to make it faster and easier.

shivaa · 02-04-2013, 06:24 AM

Which distro you're using? For linux based distro you can find rename command.

Code:

~$ rename 's/ //' T002\ 20130131.zip
~$ ls -la T002*
T00220130131.zip

Tip: Use tab key after typing first 2 or 3 letters of a filename, so shell will automatically take full filename and for space characcter it will automatically add a backslash before it to avoid interpreting special characters.

And how many files you've? For more files you can create a script like:-

Code:

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter filename: "; read oldname
newname=$(echo $oldname | tr -d ' ')
mv "$oldname" $newname
echo "Done for file $oldname"

jefro · 02-04-2013, 06:11 PM

At one time it was an option of the zip program to be able to edit the embedded file names. Not sure it that was ever in linux.