How to zip contents recursively under the directory foo/.?

Question

zip -r /tmp/foo/bar.zip /tmp/foo/* > /dev/null 2>&1

and the achieve is in this structure

   /tmp
      /foo
         file1
         file2
         dir1/
           file3
         dir/2
           file4

Why is /tmp part of the structure?

Rinzwind · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-15 19:16:15Z

up vote 3 down vote accepted

It is because you tell it to do that ;-)

I would do something like this:

cd /tmp && zip -r /tmp/bar.zip ./foo/* >/dev/null 2>&1

answered Feb 15 at 19:16

Rinzwind
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	Thanks. So it has to be relative. – UbuntuMan Feb 15 at 19:17
	Why `*` instead of ``? – Eliah Kagan Feb 15 at 19:19
	where do you see **? >:D (no idea where that came from :X ) – Rinzwind Feb 15 at 19:20

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