how can i search for files and zip them in one zip file

Question

I tried to search files and zip them with the following commmand

find . regexpression -exec zip {} \;

however it is not working. How can i do this?

Answer 1

The command you use will run zip on each file separately, try this:

find . -name <name> -print | zip newZipFile.zip -@

The -@ tells zip to read files from the input. From man zip(1),

-@ file lists. If a file list is specified as -@ [Not on MacOS], zip takes the list of input files from standard input instead of from the command line.

Answer 2

Your response is close, but this might work better:

find -regex 'regex' -exec zip filname.zip {} +

That will put all the matching files in one zip file called filename.zip. You don't have to worry about special characters in the filename (like a line break), which you would if you piped the results.