I have project with the usual directory structure (src/, bin/, …), i.e
project-name/
|-- bin
|-- lib
|-- src
`-- Makefile
And would like to create an archive with the following directory structure:
project-name-version/
|-- bin
|-- lib
|-- src
`-- Makefile
Is there a neat way to do this, which avoids creating a temporary directory project-name/
elsewhere, then copying the files inside a finally calling zip -r ...
on that temporary directory?
(I am basically looking for some kind of path prefix or relative path option.)
Best Answer
Maybe this already occurred to you, but why not just use a sym link rather than copy everything?
then use
zip -r
through the sym link (zip
will dereference sym links by default)? When you're done you can simplyrm
the sym link. Perhaps it's not the most elegant solution, but I don't know an obvious way to do it throughzip
directly.