[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47232] zip fails if filename has whitespace

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #47232 (project octave):

Support for fork() is sketchy on all operating system other than Linux.  Even
Macs, based on FreeBSD, have some issues.  I'd be scared of going down that
path.

What about just escaping the quote characters if necessary?

I used the following code in zip.m


  files = glob (files);                   # to expand wildcards
  files = regexprep (files, '"', '\\"');  # to escape double quotes
  cmd = sprintf ('zip -r "%s" %s', zipfile, sprintf (' "%s"', files{:}));


I then ran it in a directory with these file names


simple test2
simple test1
this file "has a quote" in it


The code below ran fine and I verifed the zip archive.


zip ('my.zip', {'simple*', 'this file*'})





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