Re: Compressing files using zip without directory names

From: Neil Moore (neil_at_cfconline.co.uk)
Date: 05/16/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 12:45:11 +0100

Jonathan Taub wrote:
> The man page for "zip" states to use the -D option in order to exclude
> directory names in the compressed file.
>
> This however, doesn't work.
>
> Does anybody know how to compress files to a zip file without
> retaining their directory?

I think it's the -j option:

Store just the name of a saved file (junk the path), and do not
store directory names. By default, zip will store the full
path(relative to the current path).

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