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I have a directory called Klox with whats of files and images.

Klox is located in ~/Projects/Klox

When I use zip -r Klox.zip ~/Projects/Klox the archive is containing all the directories until reaching Klox. /home/vk/projects/Klox

I want the zip file to contain only the Klox folder. So people don't have to open home folder, then open vk folder then open projects and finally open Klox

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  • Try zip -r Klox.zip ~/Projects/Klox/*
    – TheWanderer
    Apr 19, 2016 at 22:06
  • I've tried that it's not working, I don't know why, I red that /* should work but...
    – Veliko Kosev
    Apr 19, 2016 at 22:10
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    cd ~/Projects/; zip -r ~/Klox.zip Klox/
    – Videonauth
    Apr 19, 2016 at 22:28

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The zip utility stores paths relative to the current working directory, so you have to use cd or pushd/popd to go to ~/Projects first:

cd ~/Projects
zip -r Klox.zip Klox

or when you want to return to the original working directory afterwards:

pushd ~/Projects
zip -r Klox.zip Klox
popd
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