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Old 04-16-2009
Create zip without including directories
Hi guys,

I'm trying to do the following:

zip -r /tmp/foo.zip public/accounts/foo

But the zip that's been made has the whole "public/accounts/foo" path. I want only the foo folder to be zipped. How can I do this? Thanks,

Elías
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Old 04-16-2009
Code:
$ cd public/accounts/foo ; zip -r /tmp/foo.zip . ; cd -

Or take a look at the man page of your version of zip if it has a switch similar to tars -C
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Old 04-16-2009
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Originally Posted by pludi
Code:
$ cd public/accounts/foo ; zip -r /tmp/foo.zip . ; cd -

Or take a look at the man page of your version of zip if it has a switch similar to tars -C
I'll prefer no to use cd, just make the zip file from the current directory.
 
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