Re: Using the zip/unzip command given with Oracle in Unix, without directory names

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 02:19:10 -0700 (PDT), compuneo <compuneo_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am trying to compress using the zip/unzip command given with Oracle
>in Unix.
>
>The objective is to create a zip file, for e.g. for the following,
>from any directory other than tt, without the directory name.
>
>tt/f1.txt
>tt/f2.txt
>
>into tt.zip. Say I'm using this command: zip -r tt.zip tt/
>
>In other words, I want the zip file to have only f1.txt and f2.txt.
>I am not able to compress without the directory names.
>
>I have seen all the options (shown with -h option) given with zip and
>also tried to see if unzip has any option to extract without the
>directory names. I could not find.
>
>Can anyone please advise. If there is any other Unix compression
>commands, to achieve this (.zip format).
>
>Thanks,
>Vijay

Please cd into the directory at hand.
As far as I know this is the only method to drop the directory names. This applies to tar and other utilities too.

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