How to create distZip without parent directory?

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Gradle distZip creates a zip with the following structure

 MyApp.zip `-- MyApp |-- bin | |-- ... `-- lib |-- ... 

how to skip the parent directory and just archive the files as shown below

 MyApp.zip |-- bin | |-- ... `-- lib |-- ... 

Answer 1

This is not possible by default, but you can move all the files that will be included in the final zip and change the destination path in that zip, like:

 distZip { eachFile { file -> String path = file.relativePath file.setPath(path.substring(path.indexOf("/")+1,path.length())) } } 

An additional configuration of the distZip task has been distZip , which changes each file destination path in the final zip archive, removing the root folder from it. In your case, it will remove the MyApp folder from the zip code.