I am trying to create a script that foreach directoy in the folder folder, only the n most recent files are to be compressed.

However, I am having trouble with the multiple word files. I need a way to wrap them in quote marks so the tar command knows wich is each file.

Here is my script so far:

#!/bin/bash



if [ ! -d ~/backup ]; then

    mkdir ~/backup

fi



cd ~/folder

for i in *; do

    if [ -d "$i" ]; then

        original=`pwd`

        cd $i

        echo tar zcf ~/backup/"$i".tar.gz "`ls -t | head -10`"

        cd $original

    fi

done

echo "Backup copied in $HOME/backup/"

exit 0