Name

zip — stdin  stdout  - file  -- opt  --help  --version

Synopsis

zip [options] [files]

The zip and unzip commands compress and uncompress files in Windows Zip format. Compressed files have the suffix .zip. Unlike the preceding compression commands, zip does not delete the original files.

zip myfile.zip file1 file2 file3 ...

Pack.

zip -r myfile.zip dirname

Pack recursively.

unzip -l myfile.zip

List contents.

unzip myfile .zip

Unpack.

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