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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find file and zip without including directory path Post 302702865 by pamu on Wednesday 19th of September 2012 02:16:10 AM
Old 09-19-2012
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Originally Posted by koeji
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.
If you are providing directory path then you can run script anywhere you want.
But if you are not providing path then you should run your script where you want to run.
 

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zipnote(1)						      General Commands Manual							zipnote(1)

NAME
zipsplit - split a zipfile into smaller zipfiles SYNOPSIS
zipsplit [-t] [-i] [-p] [-s] [-n size] [-r room] [-b path] [-h] [-v] [-L] zipfile ARGUMENTS
zipfile Zipfile to split. OPTIONS
-t Report how many files it will take, but don't make them. -i Make index (zipsplit.idx) and count its size against first zip file. -n size Make zip files no larger than "size" (default = 36000). -r room Leave room for "room" bytes on the first disk (default = 0). -b path Use path for the output zip files. -p Pause between output zip files. -s Do a sequential split even if it takes more zip files. -h Show a short help. -v Show version information. -L Show software license. DESCRIPTION
zipsplit reads a zipfile and splits it into smaller zipfiles. EXAMPLES
To be filled in. BUGS
Does not yet support large (> 2 GB) or split archives. SEE ALSO
zip(1), unzip(1) AUTHOR
Info-ZIP v3.0 of 8 May 2008 zipnote(1)
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