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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find file and zip without including directory path Post 302702857 by koeji on Wednesday 19th of September 2012 02:04:57 AM
Old 09-19-2012
While it does now zip by explicitly providing the directory path, when I unzip the file again as a check, I get ./path/to/directory/CONTACTS_1.txt. I should also mention that $DIR is in a different directory than from where the script is run.
 

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ZIP_OPEN(3)						     Library Functions Manual						       ZIP_OPEN(3)

NAME
zip_open - open zip archive LIBRARY
libzip (-lzip) SYNOPSIS
#include <zip.h> struct zip * zip_open(const char *path, int flags, int *errorp); DESCRIPTION
The zip archive specified by path is opened and a pointer to a struct zip, used to manipulate the archive, is returned. The are specified by or'ing the following values, or 0 for none of them. ZIP_CREATE Create the archive if it does not exist. ZIP_EXCL Error if archive already exists. ZIP_CHECKCONS Perform additional consistency checks on the archive, and error if they fail. If an error occurs and errorp is non-NULL, it will be set to the corresponding error code. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion zip_open returns a struct zip pointer. Otherwise, NULL is returned and *errorp is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The archive specified by path is opened unless: [ZIP_ER_EXISTS] The file specified by path exists and ZIP_EXCL is set. [ZIP_ER_INCONS] Inconsistencies were found in the file specified by path and ZIP_CHECKCONS was specified. [ZIP_ER_INVAL] The path argument is NULL. [ZIP_ER_MEMORY] Required memory could not be allocated. [ZIP_ER_NOENT] The file specified by path does not exist and ZIP_CREATE is not set. [ZIP_ER_NOZIP] The file specified by path is not a zip archive. [ZIP_ER_OPEN] The file specified by path could not be opened. [ZIP_ER_READ] A read error occurred; see for details. [ZIP_ER_SEEK] The file specified by path does not allow seeks. SEE ALSO
libzip(3), zip_close(3), zip_error_to_str(3), zip_fdopen(3) AUTHORS
Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> NiH February 15, 2009 ZIP_OPEN(3)
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