Does anyone what command(s) to type to zip up all the contents of a directory? I wish to do this to backup the containing files, which are too many to download one by one.

Thanks,

This will give you a full listing of what you want.

man zip


Quick answer from man page:

zip -r foo foo

All files and directories in foo will be stored in foo.zip

I would suggest using z tar with GZip compression

tar -cvzf ./filename.tar.gz ./directoryname

uncompress:

tar -xvzf ./filename.tar.gz

Originally posted by RutRow
This will give you a full listing of what you want.

man zip


Quick answer from man page:

zip -r foo foo

All files and directories in foo will be stored in foo.zip

A lot of Linux distros don't have the zip and unzip programs installed by default though...so I'd also recommend gunzip :)

Hi!
zip -r -9 filename.zip /directory.

The -9 allows maximum compression.
To unzip use
unzip filename.zip

Have a great day :)

regards
amar

For an example of how to do this, you can take a look at a small script I wrote:
Hindsite (http://web.abumami.com/scripts/hindsite.html)

In the script, I use tar to zip 'em all together...
tar czv -C <source_basepath> -f <destination_file> <source_subdirectory>

1. -C <source_basepath> first changes the directory (for example, a directory holding all your web sites)
2. -f <destination_file> is the file name which will be created in the same directory as the tar command is being run in
3. <source_subdirectory> is the subdirectory under the directory specified in <source_basepath> which will be archived and zipped

I hope this help. I also hope the above is correct. In any case, the script works.