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Currently I'm doing the following command in PHP

exec("zip -j -P pass $zipname $filename");

The thing is the $filename is something like oawigufh.tmp is there any way to have the file in the archive called something like file.txt?

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This has nothing to do with PHP or programming at all, but with the zip program. – Zulakis Oct 5 '12 at 15:50

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You could do a;

exec("mv $filename file.txt && zip -j -P pass $zipname file.txt");
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I'm trying to avoid doing that as it will overwrite the other file in the directory – qwertymk Oct 5 '12 at 15:59
So you want to keep a copy of all the .tmp files intact, with their old names, and also zip each of them into a different zip archive, but for them all to have the same name in each respective archive? – lynks Oct 5 '12 at 16:01
correct (space). – qwertymk Oct 5 '12 at 16:05
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Yeah that should be an easy one...nothing in the zip man page mentions renaming. If you absolutely must achieve this, you're probably going to have to create a directory (probably using the tmp file name) and do your rename and zip in there. Then cleanup afterwards. I'd be tempted to make this 'work space' a ramdisk to avoid hitting the disks all the time. – lynks Oct 5 '12 at 16:10
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Try this command in Linux command line, I mean echo result string what you executed in exec() and past it in Linux command line.

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