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I am trying to create a zip file and want to preserve most of the directory structure, but not the rootdir as defined from the command line. The command I'm using is:
zip -r out.zip /foo/bar/
I'd like it to recurse through bar and add all files with preserved directory structure (which it does). However I do not want 'foo' to be the top level directory in the zip file created. I would like bar to be the top level directory.
Is there any easy way to go about this? I realize I could change directories before zipping to avoid the problem, but I'm looking for a solution that doesn't require this.
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You can use -j . -j --junk-paths Store just the name of a saved file (junk the path), and do not store directory names. By default, zip will store the full path (relative to the current directory).
Syntax : $zip –m filename.zip file.txt 4. -r Option: To zip a directory recursively, use the -r option with the zip command and it will recursively zips the files in a directory. This option helps you to zip all the files present in the specified directory.
Right-click on the file or folder. Select “Compressed (zipped) folder”. To place multiple files into a zip folder, select all of the files while hitting the Ctrl button. Then, right-click on one of the files, move your cursor over the “Send to” option and select “Compressed (zipped) folder”.
This should do it:
cd /foo/bar/
zip -r ../out.zip *
The archive will be in /foo/out.zip
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I don't believe zip has a way to exclude the top level directory. I think your best bet would be to do something like: pushd /foo; zip -r out.zip ./bar; popd;
But this is exactly the sort of answer you said you didn't want.
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