[X-Unix] zip from command-line in Tiger

[Stephen Jonke]

I'm looking at tar now and the only problem is its insistence upon  
putting the directory structure in. I found the -C option, but short  
of manually building the tar archive file by file, is there any way  
to tell it to create an archive with all the listed files, without  
placing them in a copy of the directory hierarchy? I.e. so that when  
uncompressed you end up with a folder that contains all the files  
directly in it, regardless of their original locations? None of the  
options looks like it does this, but I want to be sure I'm not  
missing something obvious. The only way I can think to do this, then,  
would be a separate tar command for each file, using -c for the first  
one and -r for subsequent ones, each time using -C to go to the  
directory of the file before adding it. Is there a better way?

Steve


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Stephen Jonke                                  sjj_public at mac.com