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Old 04-13-2010
Question Zip recursive content of folder (not current directory)
Hi,

Is there a way to zip the content (recursively) of a folder other then the current directory, and keep the directory structure intact?

Example:

/var/tmp/myfolder
----------------- file1
----------------- file2
----------------- folder1
------------------------ file3


Now I want to create a zip file that looks like this:
file1
file2
folder1
------ file3

ie I don't want the folder "myfolder" to be part of the zip file, only the *content* of that folder. And I want to execute the zip-command from anywhere (ie not necessarily with "myfolder" as the current directory).

Is this possible, in one single command using the basic zip command? I found a few threads here that touched this topic, but none that answered it fully.

Regards
/Jimi
Last edited by jimih; 04-13-2010 at 12:32 PM..
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Old 04-13-2010
Using find command with cpio or tar to create an archive then you zip the archive file
# 3  
Old 04-13-2010
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Originally Posted by vbe
Using find command with cpio or tar to create an archive then you zip the archive file
ok, so what you are saying is that it is impossible to achieve with a single zip-command?
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Old 04-13-2010
I suppose it depends of zip version (and origin...)
e.g. here in HP-UX :
Code:
ant:/home/vbe $ /usr/local/bin/zip -R foo sas_cours/*
        zip warning: name not matched: .mozilla/firefox/jax156rk.vbe/lock
        zip warning: name not matched: .mozilla/firefox_save/jax156rk.vbe/lock
        zip warning: name not matched: script/091102/save
        zip warning: name not matched: script/091105/save/save
  adding: sas_cours/accident.sas7bdat (deflated 95%)
  adding: sas_cours/monde1.sas7bdat (deflated 84%)
  adding: sas_cours/monde.sas7bdat (deflated 88%)
  adding: sas_cours/marque.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/manquant.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/magasin.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/machine.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/logimport.sas (deflated 21%)
  adding: sas_cours/logexportxt.sas (deflated 17%)
  adding: sas_cours/logexport.sas (deflated 16%)
  adding: sas_cours/iris.sas7bdat (deflated 92%)
  adding: sas_cours/test68.sas7bdat (deflated 91%)
  adding: sas_cours/log_expaccid.sas (deflated 17%)
  adding: sas_cours/qualite.sas7bdat (deflated 94%)
  adding: sas_cours/fitness.sas7bdat (deflated 85%)
  adding: sas_cours/propage.sas7bdat (deflated 85%)
  adding: sas_cours/htwt.sas7bdat (deflated 88%)
  adding: sas_cours/pays.sas7bdat (deflated 73%)
  adding: sas_cours/films.sas7bdat (deflated 85%)
  adding: sas_cours/formats.sas7bcat (deflated 97%)
  adding: sas_cours/ingots.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/test.sas7bdat (deflated 91%)
  adding: sas_cours/teach.sas7bdat (deflated 91%)
  adding: sas_cours/secret.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/scores.sas7bdat (deflated 91%)
  adding: sas_cours/remiss.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/region.sas7bdat (deflated 93%)
  adding: sas_cours/log_exp_classe.sas (deflated 17%)
  adding: sas_cours/monde2.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/note.sas7bdat (deflated 84%)
  adding: sas_cours/pays2.sas7bdat (deflated 89%)
  adding: sas_cours/pgm.asv (deflated 19%)
  adding: sas_cours/phys8.sas7bdat (deflated 84%)
  adding: sas_cours/plant.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/produit.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/produit1.sas7bdat (deflated 85%)
  adding: sas_cours/patient.sas7bdat (deflated 83%)
  adding: sas_cours/expaccid.csv (deflated 43%)
  adding: sas_cours/exp_classe.txt (deflated 53%)
  adding: sas_cours/ecole.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/depense.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo11.sas (deflated 19%)
  adding: sas_cours/cars.sas7bdat (deflated 94%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo2.sas (deflated 2%)
  adding: sas_cours/classe.sas7bdat (deflated 88%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo3.sas (deflated 22%)
  adding: sas_cours/crebas_v8_unix.sas (deflated 74%)
  adding: sas_cours/canc.sas7bdat (deflated 88%)
  adding: sas_cours/budget.sas7bdat (deflated 91%)
  adding: sas_cours/achat.sas7bdat (deflated 92%)
  adding: sas_cours/auto.asc (deflated 48%)
  adding: sas_cours/auto.sas7bdat (deflated 91%)
  adding: sas_cours/auto1.sas7bdat (deflated 94%)
  adding: sas_cours/autoexec.sas (deflated 79%)
  adding: sas_cours/bac.sas7bdat (deflated 91%)
  adding: sas_cours/basket.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo6.sas (deflated 18%)
  adding: sas_cours/chien.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/client.sas7bdat (deflated 88%)
  adding: sas_cours/dogs.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo5_b.sas (deflated 49%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo5_a.sas (deflated 27%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo4_c.sas (deflated 59%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo4_b.sas (deflated 20%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo4_a.sas (deflated 25%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo3_b.sas (deflated 24%)
  adding: sas_cours/dico.sas7bdat (deflated 92%)
  adding: sas_cours/detergen.sas7bdat (deflated 87%)
  adding: sas_cours/edu91.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/educatio.asc (deflated 51%)
  adding: sas_cours/educatio.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/employes.sas7bdat (deflated 85%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo1.sas (deflated 25%)
  adding: sas_cours/exo1.sas.sav (deflated 25%)
  adding: sas_cours/crime.sas7bdat (deflated 84%)
  adding: sas_cours/trefle.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/urgence.sas7bdat (deflated 90%)
  adding: sas_cours/uspop.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/vache.sas7bdat (deflated 87%)
  adding: sas_cours/vehicule.sas7bdat (deflated 85%)
  adding: sas_cours/vente.sas7bdat (deflated 85%)
  adding: sas_cours/voiture.sas7bdat (deflated 86%)
  adding: sas_cours/voitures.sas7bdat (deflated 94%)
ant:/home/vbe $ ll foo.zip 
-rw-rw-r--   1 vbe        bin         194308 Apr 13 18:22 foo.zip

But this is not HP-UX standard:
Quote:

ZIP(1L) Info-ZIP ZIP(1L)
14 August 1999 (v2.3)

NAME
zip, zipcloak, zipnote, zipsplit - package and compress (archive)
files

SYNOPSIS
zip [-aABcdDeEfFghjklLmoqrRSTuvVwXyz!@$] [-b path] [-n suffixes]
[-t mmddyyyy] [-tt mmddyyyy] [ zipfile [ file1 file2 ...]] [-xi list]

zipcloak [-dhL] [-b path] zipfile

zipnote [-hwL] [-b path] zipfile

zipsplit [-hiLpst] [-n size] [-b path] zipfile

DESCRIPTION
zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS,
OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh, Amiga and Acorn RISC OS.
It is analogous to a combination of the UNIX commands tar(1) and
compress(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz's ZIP for MSDOS
systems). A companion program (unzip(1L)), unpacks zip archives. The
zip and unzip(1L) programs can work with archives produced by PKZIP,
and PKZIP and PKUNZIP can work with archives produced by zip. zip
version 2.3 is compatible with PKZIP 2.04. Note that PKUNZIP 1.10
cannot extract files produced by PKZIP 2.04 or zip 2.3. You must use
PKUNZIP 2.04g or unzip 5.0p1 (or later versions) to extract them.


---------- Post updated at 18:54 ---------- Previous update was at 18:33 ----------

Have you tried -r ./* ?
 
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