Question: **Initial situation:**

```
.
├── d0
├── f0
├── f1
│   └── d1
└── f2
    └── f3
        ├── d2
        ├── d3
        └── d4

```

**What I need to do:**

I would like to create a zip containing d0, d1 and d4 which must have the fallowing structure:

```
.
├── d0
├── d1
└── d4

```

**What I have already tried:**

I tried it with `zip myfiles d0 f1/d1 f2/f3/d4`. But this keeps the original folder structure, which is not what I want.

```
.
├── d0
├── f1
│   └── d1
└── f2
    └── f3
        └── d4

```

**Question**
How to create a zip with multiple files without the sub-folders?

Answer: 
Manually, you can create the zip file and the update it:

```
zip myfiles d0
(cd f1; zip -u ../myfiles.zip d1)
(cd f2/f3; zip -u ../../myfiles.zip d4)

```

The parentheses create subshells, and the effect of the `cd` only lasts in the subshell, so you don't have to `cd` back to the original directory.

If `d1`, `d2`, etc. are actually files and not directories themselves, then use the `-j` option:

> 
> **-j**  
> 
> **--junk-paths**  
> 
>  Store just the name of a saved file (junk the path), and do not store
>  directory names. By default, zip will store the full path (relative to
>  the current directory).
> 
> 
>
Using the -j option will remove the path from the file.

```
zip -j myfiles d0 f1/d1 f2/f3/d4 

```

[reference](https://linux.die.net/man/1/zip)