Linux – how to specify the unzip target directory

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Is there an option on linux zip command such that I can hard code the target directory it unzips into. For example, I would like to zip ./mydir files into myzipfile.zip but I want the unzip command to create a specific directory "projx" and expand the files which were under ./mydir to it.

zip -r myzipfile.zip mydir (-option to expand into 'projx' when unzipped? )

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There is no such option, at least not for Info-ZIP. You have to create a directory projx yourself, move/copy your files into it and then pass it to zip.

If the directory already exists then just pass option -d to unzip to specify the target directory for extraction.

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Linux unzip command: Option to force overwrite

According to http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/unzip/ you can use the -o option to overwrite files:

unzip -o /path/to/archive.zip

Note that -o, like most of unzip's options, has to go before the archive name.

Macos – Terminal unzip outside default directory

The specific answer to your question is no. The unzip that ships with OS X has no way to change directories in the zip on the fly. One thing to note however, is that zip is not 'creating the directory'. It is part of the archive. A properly created zip archive will not have this issue if you are controlling the creation process:

$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 bsmith  staff  0 Sep 30 22:01 b
-rw-r--r--  1 bsmith  staff  0 Sep 30 22:01 c
$ zip -r a.zip .
  adding: b (stored 0%)
  adding: c (stored 0%)
$ cd ../b
$ unzip ../a/a.zip
Archive:  ../a/a.zip
 extracting: b                       
 extracting: c                       
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--@ 1 bsmith  staff  0 Sep 30 22:01 b
-rw-r--r--@ 1 bsmith  staff  0 Sep 30 22:01 c

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