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Using tar on filenames containing spaces

I had an incremental backup script that produces a tarball of all files that have been amended in the last 7 days. It includes this line:

Code:

tar -rf /var/www/vhosts/<***>/tarbackupw_`date +%Y_%m_%d`.tar `find /var/www/vhosts/<***>/forums -type f -mtime -7`

It used to work fine, but now I have a new 3rd party script which produces files on the server that contain spaces in the filenames. So now I get this kind of error:

Code:

tar: /var/www/vhosts/<***>/forums/downloads/files/36-rct: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

tar: grand: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

tar: glacier.zip: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

(The filename is "36-rct grand glacier.zip")

Please can anybody suggest a similar script that will produce a tarball WITHOUT changing the filenames?

Try that:

Quote:

tar -rf /var/www/vhosts/<***>/tarbackupw_`date +%Y_%m_%d`.tar `find /var/www/vhosts/<***>/forums -type f -mtime -7 -exec echo \"{}\" \;`

to get "36-rct grand glacier.zip" with the double quotes for each file.

Yes, try:

Code:

tar -rf /var/www/vhosts/<***>/tarbackupw_`date +%Y_%m_%d`.tar `find /var/www/vhosts/<***>/forums -type f -mtime -7 -exec echo "{}" \;`

Hi Matir
Same idea at the same time!
But the double quotes in the echo must be backslashed.

Oops, yeah, they should be. Sorry, didn't test it before I posted it. :)