Tar: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

Question

I am trying to make a create a backup bash script from multiple source dir to a different destination dir.

So I used find to search for source dir folder name, save it into variable and use it for tar filenames.

I also pointed tar source dir to $file instead but when I execute the script, it returns an error (Tar: Cannot stat: No such file or directory)

for file in `find $src_dir -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -name $skip_containers -prune -o -printf '%f\n' | grep -v "\.$"`; do 
  echo "Compressing $file..."
  tar zcf "$backup_dir/$file.tar.gz" -T $file 
done

Variable used

1. src_dir=pointing to the origin of my backup data

2. skip_containers=some directories I am skipping

3. backup_dir=pointing to a external backup drive (same filesystem as my source)

4. file=for tar filename and also source dir loop

File structure

/path/to/data/
    ├── dir1
    ├── dir2
    ├── dir3
    ├── dir4

Desirable result is to create tar for each dir and backup into external dir

Answer 1

You need to prevent word splitting:

find ...... -print0 |
    xargs -0 tar zcf "$backup_dir/$file.tar.gz"

See: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Word-Splitting.html