I'm completely new to writing scripts in Linux and wish to wright a script to look through a directory and i'ts subdirectories and when it finds a zip file check the integrity of this file.

I done a bit of investigation and know that i need to use

to test the integrity of the file, but i not sure how to recursively work my way through a directory structure. Each directory may have zero or more zip files and zero or more directories.

I'm not asking for the script to be written just some pointers in the right direction.

Thanks for any help.

The find command searches directories recursively. Something like this

find . -name \*.zip -exec zip -T \{\} \;

should work for you.

...unless path elements include spaces. Then you'd use find with "-print0" and xargs with "-0:.

Am i right in thinking i would need, as the directories and file name containe spaces.

You are right in thinking that is what you need.

I had to change the code to

as the previous version failed as the -name argument was expecting a directory next not another argument.

Thanks for all your help.