How do I zip multiple directories and preserve structure
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Let's say I have 3 directories, each with their own contents (files and subdirectories).
C:\foo1\ D:\foo2\ E:\foo3\
I want to zip these up so that the zip file contains the following directory structure: \foo1\ \foo2\ \foo3\
So far, I've figured this out: zip(myzipfile.zip,{foo1_path,foo2_path,foo3_path});
However, this will put all the contents of each of the directories into the zip file - it does not preserve the directory structure of having the actual 'foo1' folder listed in the zip file.
This is a weird one, but due to various permissions issues and other IT issues, this is the only way I can automate my zip file logging...
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Jan
on 15 Sep 2013
Edited: per isakson
on 1 Oct 2016
You can call the Java methods as in the zip() command. Some of the methods are not documented and might not work with future Matlab versions, but I have success with this from Matlab 6.5 to R2011b:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.zip.*;
fileOut = FileOutputStream('myFile.zip');
zipOut = ZipOutputStream(fileOut);
% This InterruptibleStreamCopier is unsupported and may change without notice.
StreamCopier = ...
com.mathworks.mlwidgets.io.InterruptibleStreamCopier.getInterruptibleStreamCopier;
%
% You will need a loop over your filres from here...
fileIn = FileInputStream('C:\foo1\File1.txt');
zipObj = ZipEntry('foo1\File1.txt'); % <== relative path name
zipOut.putNextEntry(zipObj);
StreamCopier.copyStream(fileIn, zipOut);
fileIn.close;
zipOut.closeEntry;
% ...to here
%
% Close streams:
zipOut.close;
fileOut.close;
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