Zip include

You might wish to zip up the photos to photos. Here is one way to exclude the videos when creating photos. When you compress files into a zip file, the system decides whether to compress the file or just store it. MP3 files , for example, are already compressed, so there is little point in compressing them further; they are usually stored as is within a zip file. You can, however, specify a compression level between 0 and 9 to compress a file further. This takes longer to do, but it can make significant space savings.

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Tweet Share Email. Linux Switching from Windows. In This Article. Create an Archive of All the Files in a Folder. Include Hidden Files in an Archive. Update the Existing Files in a Zipped Archive. Delete Files From a Zipped Archive.

Create a Split Archive. Customize the Progress Report of the Zipping Process. Fix a Zip File. Encrypt an Archive. Show What Will Be Zipped. Test an Archive. Exclude Files. Specify Compression Level. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Zip an archive without including parent directory Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 4 months ago. Active 12 months ago. Viewed k times. I want to zip many folders in a directory tree like so V- something.

Improve this question. Dami Dami 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Use the -j or --junk-paths option in your zip command. From the zip man page : -j --junk-paths Store just the name of a saved file junk the path , and do not store directory names.

By default, zip will store the full path relative to the current directory. Improve this answer. This appears to be the correct answer.

This will omit all folders in the archive, and if you have duplicate file names in different folders, this will blow up. This has its place, but only if you don't care about folders and just want files. Not what the OP was asking for, but still good knowledge — Govind Rai. Or if running it from outside the folder you could run, zip -r test. Ok I ran the script and it created a the parent directory in the archive i want only the contents of the folder to be in the archive — Dami.

Show 7 more comments. How about this command? While this is a correct answer, the introduction doesn't sound like you're convinced yourself. It would also help to explain a little bit, what the command does. Select entries in an existing archive and copy them to a new archive.

This new mode is similar to update but command line patterns select entries in the existing archive rather than files from the file system and it uses the --out option to write the resulting archive to a new file rather than update the existing archive, leaving the original archive unchanged. Adjust self-extracting executable archive. A self-extracting executable archive is created by prepending the "SFX" stub to an existing archive.

The -A option tells zip to adjust the entry offsets stored in the archive to take into account this "preamble" data. This option is a Windows-only option.

Once archive is created and tested if -T is used, which is recommended , clear the archive bits of files processed. Once the bits are cleared they are cleared permanently. You may want to use the -sf show files option to store the list of files processed in case the archive operation must be repeated.

Also consider using the -MM must match option. Be sure to check out -DF as a possibly better way to do incremental backups. This option is a Windows-only option which only includes files that have the archive bit set. Directories are not stored when -AS is used, though by default the paths of entries, including directories, are stored as usual and can be used by most unzips to recreate directories.

The archive bit is set by the operating system when a file is modified and, if used with -AC , -AS can provide an incremental backup capability. However, other applications can modify the archive bit and it may not be a reliable indicator of which files have changed since the last archive operation.

Alternative ways to create incremental backups are using -t to use file dates, though this won't catch old files copied to directories being archived, and -DF to create a differential archive. Use the specified path for the temporary zip archive. This option is useful when updating an existing archive and the file system containing this old archive does not have enough space to hold both old and new archives at the same time. It may also be useful when streaming in some cases to avoid the need for data descriptors.

Note that using this option may require zip take additional time to copy the archive file when done to the destination file system. Add one-line comments for each file. File operations adding, updating are done first, and the user is then prompted for a one-line comment for each file. Enter the comment followed by return, or just return for no comment. Remove delete entries from a zip archive.

Note that shell pathname expansion has been inhibited with backslashes, so that zip can see the asterisks , enabling zip to match on the contents of the zip archive instead of the contents of the current directory. See the option -ic to ignore case in the archive.

Display dots while each entry is zipped except on ports that have their own progress indicator. See -ds below for setting dot size.

The default is a dot every 10 MB of input file processed. The -v option also displays dots previously at a much higher rate than this but now -v also defaults to 10 MB and this rate is also controlled by -ds. On MacOS, include only data-fork of files zipped into the archive.

Good for exporting files to foreign operating-systems. Resource-forks will be ignored at all. Display progress dots for the archive instead of for each file. The command zip -qdgds 10m Set amount of input file processed for each dot displayed. See -dd to enable displaying dots. Setting this option implies -dd. Size is in the format nm where n is a number and m is a multiplier. The default is 10 MB. The -v option also displays dots and now defaults to 10 MB also.

This rate is also controlled by this option. A size of 0 turns dots off. This option does not control the dots from the "Scanning files" message as zip scans for input files.

The dot size for that is fixed at 2 seconds or a fixed number of entries, whichever is longer. Display the volume disk number each entry is being read from, if reading an existing archive, and where it's being written. Do not create entries in the zip archive for directories.

Directory entries are created by default so that their attributes can be saved in the archive. Create an archive that contains all new and changed files since the original archive was created. For this to work, the input file list and current directory must be the same as during the original zip operation. For example, if the existing archive was created using zip -r foofull. Note that the timezone environment variable TZ should be set according to the local timezone for this option to work correctly.

A change in timezone since the original archive was created could result in no times matching and all files being included. A possible approach to backing up a directory might be to create a normal archive of the contents of the directory as a full backup, then use this option to create incremental backups. Encrypt the contents of the zip archive using a password that is entered on the terminal in response to a prompt this will not be echoed; if standard error is not a tty , zip will exit with an error.

The password prompt is repeated to save the user from typing errors. Replace freshen an existing entry in the zip archive only if it has been modified more recently than the version already in the zip archive; unlike the update option -u this will not add files that are not already in the zip archive. For example: zip -f foo This command should be run from the same directory from which the original zip command was run, since paths stored in zip archives are always relative.

Note that the timezone environment variable TZ should be set according to the local timezone for the -f , -u and -o options to work correctly. The reasons behind this are somewhat subtle but have to do with the differences between the Unix-format file times always in GMT and most of the other operating systems always local time and the necessity to compare the two. Leave off the DDD if there is no daylight savings time.

Fix the zip archive. The -F option can be used if some portions of the archive are missing, but requires a reasonably intact central directory. The input archive is scanned as usual, but zip ignores some problems. The resulting archive should be valid, but any inconsistent entries will be left out. When doubled as in -FF , the archive is scanned from the beginning and zip scans for special signatures to identify the limits between the archive members.

The single -F is more reliable if the archive is not too much damaged, so try this option first. If the archive is too damaged or the end has been truncated, you must use -FF.

This option is a change from zip 2. The -F option now more reliably fixes archives with minor damage and the -FF option is needed to fix archives where -F might have been sufficient before. Neither option will recover archives that have been incorrectly transferred in ascii mode instead of binary.

After the repair, the -t option of unzip may show that some files have a bad CRC. Such files cannot be recovered; you can remove them from the archive using the -d option of zip. Note that -FF may have trouble fixing archives that include an embedded zip archive that was stored without compression in the archive and, depending on the damage, it may find the entries in the embedded archive rather than the archive itself.

Try -F first as it does not have this problem. The format of the fix commands have changed. For example, to fix the damaged archive foo. If this doesn't work, as when the archive is truncated , or if some entries you know are in the archive are missed, then try zip -FF foo --out foofixfix The -FF option may create an inconsistent archive.

Depending on what is damaged, you can then use the -F option to fix that archive. A split archive with missing split files can be fixed using -F if you have the last split of the archive the. If this file is missing, you must use -FF to fix the archive, which will prompt you for the splits you have. Currently the fix options can't recover entries that have a bad checksum or are otherwise damaged. This option tells zip to read the contents of any FIFO it finds.

Synchronize the contents of an archive with the files on the OS. Normally when an archive is updated, new files are added and changed files are updated but files that no longer exist on the OS are not deleted from the archive. This option enables a new mode that checks entries in the archive against the file system.

If the file time and file size of the entry matches that of the OS file, the entry is copied from the old archive instead of being read from the file system and compressed. If the OS file has changed, the entry is read and compressed as usual. If the entry in the archive does not match a file on the OS, the entry is deleted.

Enabling this option should create archives that are the same as new archives, but since existing entries are copied instead of compressed, updating an existing archive with -FS can be much faster than creating a new archive. Also consider using -u for updating an archive. For this option to work, the archive should be updated from the same directory it was created in so the relative paths match.

If few files are being copied from the old archive, it may be faster to create a new archive instead. A change in timezone since the original archive was created could result in no times matching and recompression of all files. This option deletes files from the archive. If you need to preserve the original archive, make a copy of the archive first or use the --out option to output the updated archive to a new file.

Even though it may be slower, creating a new archive with a new archive name is safer, avoids mismatches between archive and OS paths, and is preferred. Grow append to the specified zip archive, instead of creating a new one. If this operation fails, zip attempts to restore the archive to its original state. If the restoration fails, the archive might become corrupted. This option is ignored when there's no existing archive or when at least one archive member must be updated or deleted.

Display the zip help information this also appears if zip is run with no arguments. Display extended help including more on command line format, pattern matching, and more obscure options. Include only the specified files, as in: zip -r foo.

The backslash avoids the shell file name substitution, so that the name matching is performed by zip at all directory levels. The long option form of the first example is: zip -r foo. Though the command syntax used to require -i at the end of the command line, this version actually allows -i or --include anywhere.

The list of files terminates at the next argument starting with - , the end of the command line, or the list terminator an argument that is just. There must be a space between the option and the first file of a list. The single value forms are not recommended because they can be confusing and, in particular, the -ifile format can cause problems if the first letter of file combines with i to form a two-letter option starting with i.

Use -sc to see how your command line will be parsed. Also possible: zip -r foo. Files to -i and -x are patterns matching internal archive paths. See -R for more on patterns. When used, zip will not consider Image files eg. For example, if you have SparkFS loaded, zipping a Spark archive will result in a zipfile containing a directory and its content while using the ' I ' option will result in a zipfile containing a Spark archive.

Obviously this second case will also be obtained without the ' I ' option if SparkFS isn't loaded. On VMS or Windows systems, ignore case when matching archive entries. This option is only available on systems where the case of files is ignored. On systems with case-insensitive file systems, case is normally ignored when matching files on the file system but is not ignored for -f freshen , -d delete , -U copy , and similar modes when matching against archive entries currently -f ignores case on VMS because archive entries can be from systems where case does matter and names that are the same except for case can exist in an archive.

The -ic option makes all matching case insensitive. This option can result in multiple archive entries matching a command line pattern. Store just the name of a saved file without the path , and do not store directory names. By default, zip will store the full path, relative to the current directory.

The complete path including volume will be stored. By default the relative path will be stored. This option should not be used on binary files. This option is to ensure that unzip -a on Unix will get back an exact copy of the original file, to undo the effect of zip -l. See -ll for how binary files are handled. Open a logfile at the given path.