gzipping up a set of directories and creating a tar compressed file

Question

My bash fu is not what it should be.

I want to create a little batch script which will copy a list of directories into a new zip file.

There are (at least) t

Answer 1

Just use the null-byte as delimiter when you write file / directory names to file. This way you need not worry about spaces, newlines, etc. in file names!

printf "%s\000" */ > listOfDirs.txt    # alternative: find ... -print0 

while IFS="" read -r -d '' dir; do command ls -1abd "$dir"; done < listOfDirs.txt

tar --null -czvf mytar.tar.gz --files-from listOfDirs.txt