[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47578] zip/gzip/bzip2 fail when writing to path with spaces in name

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #47578 (project octave):

Are you sure you have the syntax right?  It is quite different between gzip
and zip.

For gzip, the help string says


FILELIST = gzip (FILES, DIR)


When called with 


gzip ('testgzip.gz', '/tmp/tmpfil123') 


You are asking it to compress the file 'testgzip.gz' (and gzip will add the
extension so this will become 'testgzip.gz.gz') and place it in the directory
'/tmp/tmfil123'.  But that location already exists as a file, so Octave can't
make a directory to place the output in and fails with


error: gzip: Failed to create output directory DIR 


On the other hand, the help string for zip is


FILELIST = zip (ZIPFILE, FILES)


so the invocation


zip ('testzip.zip', '/tmp/tmpfil123') 


probably succeeds and creates a zip file with the compressed results of
tmfil123.



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