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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Zipping contents without the actual directory Post 303003349 by bakunin on Wednesday 13th of September 2017 01:07:40 AM
Old 09-13-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by paul1234
Hi ,
I want to zip files present in the directories listed under a parent directory without zipping the directory itself
You haven't told us which OS you are using:

Code:
find <startdir> -type d -exec /path/to/zip {} {}/* \;

Notice, that some versions of the find-command do not allow for multiple instances of the {}-macro and because i do not know which one you are using you will have to find out if yours does or doesn't. In the latter case put the zip-command into a small script to which you pass the {} as argument and call that from the find-command.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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