Question

zip -r 1.zip /home/username/the_folder

At here, when i unzip 1.zip, it will create /home/username/the_folder, from whichever folder i am unzipping from.

How do I zip, stating the full absolute paths, but make the zip only contain the folder structure starting at, in this case for instance, /home/username?

That way I could be at whatever path i wanted, unzip and it would just create the_folder, and not /home/username/the_folder.

Answer 1

Use this command:

cd path_under_folder_to_zip && \
zip -r 1.zip folder_to_zip >/dev/null && \
mv 1.zip my_current_path