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I'm using zip to archive different files. I need to create a directory in the zip file where to place some of them. Is that possible ?

The syntax I got so far is
zip output.zip -r /var/www/test

Inside the zip I want a folder called backup1 and in there the files from /test.

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Might this be better suited to ServerFault? It seems more like a sysadmin question than a programming question to me. – ssokolow Nov 29 '10 at 20:54
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Why don't you just make the directory structure you want and then zip it and then remove it?

cd ~/
mkdir backup1
cp /var/www/test/* backup1/
zip -r output.zip ~/backup1
rm -r backup1
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Because I'm used to command line flexibility and I thought I'm missing something. Good tip though. – user56301 Nov 29 '10 at 16:48
man zip doesn't seem to allow you to create directories. If you want to do in one line; just cp /var/www/test/* backup1/ && zip -rm output.zip backup1/ (m for move the files) part is to not have to have feature-bloat; there's no real reason to let zip create files/dirs that don't exist, when you can do it perfectly fine with other commands. – jimbob Nov 29 '10 at 16:56
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$ ln -s /var/www/test backup1
$ zip -r backup1 -j backup1/*

Acceptable?

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You are junking the directories and create a new sim link in the process.. I don't think it's optimal. Thanks anyways. – user56301 Nov 29 '10 at 16:55
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