How to zip a directory without zipping the parents directories?

Question

I have a directory called Klox with whats of files and images.

Klox is located in ~/Projects/Klox

When I use zip -r Klox.zip ~/Projects/Klox the archive is containing all the directories until reaching Klox. /home/vk/projects/Klox

I want the zip file to contain only the Klox folder. So people don't have to open home folder, then open vk folder then open projects and finally open Klox

I've tried that it's not working, I don't know why, I red that `/*` should work but... — Veliko Kosev, Apr 19 '16 at 22:10

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '16 at 22:29

The zip utility stores paths relative to the current working directory, so you have to use cd or pushd/popd to go to ~/Projects first:

cd ~/Projects
zip -r Klox.zip Klox

or when you want to return to the original working directory afterwards:

pushd ~/Projects
zip -r Klox.zip Klox
popd

How to zip a directory without zipping the parents directories?

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