Unzip without path

compression

I would expect the following command to extract the contents of the top directory in the zip file to the destination directory:

unzip file.zip topdir/\* -d destdir

However, what I get is destdir/topdir. What I am looking for is an unzip command similar to

cp -r topdir/* destdir

How do I extract the contents without the topdir path?

Best Answer

Try the -j option. From the man page:

-j junk paths. The archive's directory structure is not recreated; all files are deposited in the extraction directory (by default, the current one).

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