Couldn't create archive on top level

[pingwin4ik]

cd build/ && bestzip ../build.zip *
not working this feature:
(This will not include the build/ folder, it's contents will be top-level.)
version 2.1.7

Thank you!

[Lampei]

You're not at the top level though. You changed directory to be the build directory.

If you want the build directory to be included, wouldn't you do bestzip ./build/build.zip * ?

[nfriedly]

@pingwin4ik what OS are you on, and what tool are you using to extract the .zip files?

Some extraction tools automatically add a grouping folder when there are multiple top-level files. The one built into macOS does, for example. However if you use a tool to inspect the .zip without extracting it such as https://extract.me/ it should show things as expected.

For example, I made these two .zip files from the test/ directory:

• npx bestzip fixtures-with-folder.zip fixtures/* created fixtures-with-folder.zip
  
• cd fixtures/; npx bestzip ../fixtures-without-folder.zip * created fixtures-without-folder.zip
  

On my macbook, fixtures-with-folder.zip extracts to a folder named fixtures/ as expected, but fixtures-without-folder.zip extracts to a folder named fixtures-without-folder/ - this was not part of the .zip file, the mac Archive Utility created that folder based on the name of the .zip file.

I also tested the above with --force=node and got identical results.

[pingwin4ik]

You're not at the top level though. You changed directory to be the build directory.

If you want the build directory to be included, wouldn't you do bestzip ./build/build.zip * ?

Thank you for response ;=)
We try to run in azure pipeline and we want archive all files in folder "build" without folder
we run next command: "cd build/ && bestzip ../archive.zip *"

P.S. run in Ubuntu 16 04 as runner on Azure and then publish to bucket

[adeviss2]

The problem is that when you use "*" it doesn't zip .dot files like .htaccess.

I want to zip for example the dist folder but in the archive I dont want a dist folder , I need to be top level so:
I do: cd dist && bestzip ../dist.zip && cd ../
it gives an error
when I do: "cd dist && bestzip ../dist.zip ./ && cd ../" it's all got except no htaccess file

[nfriedly]

I think that later version should include the dotfiles.. what happens with a native zip command?

Alternatively, does it work if you include them explicitly? cd dist && bestzip ../dist.zip ./ .htaccess && cd ../