From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-10-30T14:48:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Zip an existing directory?

Peter Marks wrote:
>> zip -r archive.zip
>> Users/petermarks/Desktop/orbus/public/1/daily/2007-10-29/
>>
>> I forgot the "-r" (for recursive).
> 
> Thanks Ed, that archives the contents of "2007-10-29". Do you know if 
> there is a way to make the new archive only contain the contents of 
> "2007-10-29" and not the folders of the path leading to it?

$ cd /Users/petermarks/Desktop/orbus/public/1/daily/
$ zip -r archive.zip 2007-10-29

There's another way, but I don't remember what it is.