I have a perl CGI script that munges a text input and returns one or more output files.

Because these files are being delivered from a web server, with a specific directory set for CGI scripts to write to, the resulting zip file also contains that hierarchy eg:

#/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError);

my $tmpfiles = '/home/webfiles/tmpfiles';
open ($FH1,'>, $tmpfiles.'/file1.txt');
open ($FH2,'>, $tmpfiles.'/file2.txt');

# do stuff here to write to $FH1 and $FH2

close $FH1;
close $FH2;

zip [$tmpfiles.'/file1.txt',$tmpfiles.'file2.txt'] =>$tmpfiles.'/outpu
+t.zip';

exit;

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When 'output.zip' is uncompressed you end up with:


home/
      webfiles/
             tmpfiles/
                      file1.txt
                      file2.txt

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Is there any way to create the zip file without the enclosing directory hierarchy?

In reply to Zip only files, not directory hierarchy. by desertrat

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