How do I zip contents of a directory without including the directory itself? [closed]

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Create an archive from a directory without the directory name being added to the archive

I would like to zip all content and folders from a folder to a ZIP file.

I have a folder 1 with the folder update in it. The contents of \update\ should be zipped so that those files and folders are in the root of the zip file update.zip. I still want to run the cmd command from inside folder 1.

Now I have this command:

7za a -tzip update.zip "update"

It zips the update folder too, but I don't want that to be included. The command should work under Windows XP and Windows 7.

Answer 1

You could try to use the following syntax to do this:

cd update
7za a -tzip ..\update.zip *

Answer 2

From the 7-Zip Help:

7z a archive2.zip .\subdir\*

adds all files and subfolders from folder subdir to archive archive2.zip. The filenames in archive will not contain subdir\ prefix.

So in your case it'd be: 7za a update.zip .\update\*

Also, pay attention to how 7-Zip deals with wildcards -- it's not the same as other Windows apps. It uses * to mean "All files", and *.* means "All files with a period in the filename". The primary difference being that with *.*, files without an extension are not included!