Friday, July 29, 2011

Zip a folder in Linux

I keep forgetting the command to zip a folder in Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4). And I have even got all files in the folder got zipped individually when I typed the command wrongly, which looked funny to me. The correct command, to remind myself:

zip -9 -r

To zip a single file:

zip -9

Use "-9" for best compression. The compressed file works fine with Windows XP compression tool.

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