Zip file making issues

[Ryan Coleman]

On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Matt Emmerton wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Coleman" <editor at d3photography.com>
> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 11:11 PM
> Subject: Zip file making issues
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> Does anyone have any advice for this?
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> I'm working on a series of commands - executed in a shell script - that zips a deep directory in a tree. But it makes the full path as part of the ZIP file. That's not what I want - I just want those directories that appear after the "*".  In this case:
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> "-J" eliminates all the paths - bad because it also kills those after the "*"
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> Here's my default that includes the whole d*mn path.
> /usr/local/bin/zip -r /usr/www/d3photography.com/htdocs/images/paidphotos/1284343047-Le-ach.zip /mount/archive/orders/Sep20/1284343047-Le-ach/download*
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> I could just run a "cd" to the directory parent and do it there - that would solve the problem - but that's simply too dangerous if the script generator throws an error on the next set of commands (a risk I do not want to take).
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> So how do I get it to store as "download/small/image.jpg" inside of the ZIP file instead of "mount/archive/orders/Sep20/1284343047-Le-ach/download/small/image.jpg".
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> I only recently discovered this bug -- none of my clients have had the guts to tell me about it.
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> Just change the directory before you start zipping.
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> cd /mount/archive/orders/Sep20/1284343047-Le-ach
> /usr/local/bin/zip -r /usr/www/d3photography.com/htdocs/images/paidphotos/1284343047-Le-ch.zip download*

As I said in my OP: I could just run a "cd" to the directory parent and do it there - that would solve the problem - but that's simply too dangerous if the script generator throws an error on the next set of commands (a risk I do not want to take).

Thank you, though. I'm hoping to find a solution instead with PHP. One of these generated files comes out of PHP in a different directory path where a change of directory is not possible.

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Ryan