Restricting zip to current directory only

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I am using the following command in a C shell script:

find . -name "*.*" -print | zip $ProjectZipFile -@

to zip files in a Unix (Sun and/or Linux) directory for archiving purposes. This command works fine, the only problem being that if sub-directories are present, they are included in the zip as well. How do I need to change my command so that only the files in the current directory, and no sub-directories if present, are included in the zip file?

Thanks,
Paul Hudgens
Denver

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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | zip $ProjectZipFile -@

"*.*" is a DOS thing, UNIX doesn't use file extensions or do that kind of wildcard match, and you don't need to specify any names at all for find to find everything.

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Corona 688 has a good answer if your find command supports the maxdepth option. If it doesn't, I think Perderabo posted something in the past that also might help you, along the lines of:

find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -type f | zip $ProjectZipFile -@

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Sorry about my delay in replying - I'm finally getting time to get back to this. I have tried both procedures suggested, but neither worked on either UNIX or LINUX. I was getting "ProjectZipFile: Undefined variable" messages. I have not checked Perderabo, but will try tomorrow.

Thanks, Paul Hudgens

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Sorry about my delay in replying - I'm finally getting time to get back to this. I have tried both procedures suggested, but neither worked on either UNIX or LINUX. I was getting "ProjectZipFile: Undefined variable" messages. I checked Perderabo and found the -prune command which I successfully used in the following command:

find * -prune -type f | zip $Gf66ZipFile -@

This successfully zips only the files in the current directory, on both Unix and Linux, regardless of whether sub-directories are present or not.

Thanks,
Paul Hudgens

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Hint: That means it thinks ProjectZipFile is undefined :wink: Apparently you're using a different variable to define the filename than the one you specified in your OP.