Ubuntu – Print a list of “full” relative paths of all the files present in a directory and in its sub-directories

If I understand correctly what you want to do, this is the solution:

#!/bin/sh

USAGE="Usage: $0 dir file1 file2 ... fileN\nto find all subdirectories of dir that contain all the given files.\n"

if [ "$#" == "0" ]; then
    printf "$USAGE"
    exit 1
fi

ARG=""
DIR=$1
shift

while (( "$#" )); do
  ARG="$ARG -exec test -e \"{}/$1\" \; "
  shift
done

cmd="find $DIR -type d $ARG -print"
eval $cmd

What it does is this:

The use find ... -type d to find all subdirectories (including the directory given as first parameter). The test -e command checks if a file exists. So for a given directory we have to check all the files given in the command line: test -e /path/to/directory/file1 test -e /path/to/directory/file2 test -e /path/to/directory/file3 ... The /path/to/directory is {} - a single result of find. Then the find-parameter -exec can be used to check for a single file. To check for all files several -exec test parameters are needed. So while loop build a list of there parameters, then this list is put together in a single command and evaluated.

Have fun ...

As you note in the comments you now know how to change directory with your script, I'll explain the situation with zip regarding relative paths.

It is probably easiest to open terminal and cd to kit123; you have to make the target directory your working directory- you can't run the command from the base of your home directory or it will pick up all the paths of /home/$USER/.. If you use the -j option, it will strip out all paths, as there isn't really an equivalent of the tar option --strip with which different levels of path removal can be specified.

So please cd to your target directory (kit123) and enter:

zip -r kit123.zip *

This will recursively (-r) preserve all (*) files and directories of files in the current directory (kit123), and as relative paths (-p) are preserved automatically unless the -j option is present, the directory structure will be as you wished. Kit123 and subfolders (kitpart1) with their own files will be present:

kit123
    kitpart1
        file.xcf
        anotherfile.xcf
    kitpart2

You can check the contents of the zip file with unzip -l zipfile.zip.

For more information on the other options available for zip, see man zip and the Ubuntu manpage online.