Zip A Folder

on April 17, 2008 - 2 Comments
Categories: tools

Linux and Free BSD, how to zip a folder. This is useful for backups, or moving to a new webhost.

zip -9 -r zipname folder

example: zip -9 -r myfolder.zip examplefoldername

-9 = best compression
-r = recursive

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  1. kangmid
    June 9, 2008 at 6:17 am

    be sides For compression data, using TAR under Linux is the Best tool and solussion of compression data.

  2. Gadhadhraya
    March 15, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    This may not be revelant but i figured i’d post this anyway. If you’re using ubuntu 8.10 you may be in for some issues with the network manager. For some unknown reason it stops functioning. You will need to manually set you’re resolv.conf with your ISP’s DNS servers. That file is located in /etc/network/resolv.conf

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