Zip and Unzip
To compress a le with zip, type the following command:
zip -r filename.zip filesdir
In this example, filename.zip represents the le you are creating and filesdir represents the
directory you want to put in the new zip le. The -r option species that you want to include all les
contained in the filesdir directory recursively.
To extract the contents of a zip le, type the following command:
unzip filename.zip
You can use zip to compress multiple les and directories at the same time by listing them with a
space between each one:
zip -r filename.zip file1 file2 file3 /usr/work/school
The above command compresses file1, file2, file3, and the contents of the
/usr/work/school directory (assuming this directory exists) and places them in a le named
filename.zip
