How do you specify filenames within a zip when creating it on the command line from a pipe?

Question

I\'m trying to create a zip file from file contents which are being piped in, e.g.

mysql [params and query] | zip -q output.zip -

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Answer 1

You can use a named pipe, and send the request output to it, while zipping from it.

mkfifo output.txt ; mysql [params and query] > output.txt & zip output.zip -FI output.txt ; rm output.txt