How to Create a Zip File in Unix
Most Unix systems have historically used GNUzip and compress instead of zip to create compressed file archives. Meanwhile, zip is the most popular compressed file archive format in the Windows environment. Today, with Windows dominating the desktop market, Unix operating systems such as Linux and Solaris now include zip by default. It takes just a few steps to create zip files in Unix that can be easily used in the Windows environment.
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Log into the Unix system with your username and password.
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Open up a command line prompt by clicking on a desktop icon that looks like a computer terminal. Unlike Windows, there is no easy way to create a zip file in Unix, without using the command line.
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Change the directory to the directory above the files, and directory you want to zip. Use the command line to do this. For example, if you want to go to the /var/tmp directory, type in "cd /var/tmp."
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Run the zip command from the command line to create the zip file. For example, "zip -r /var/tmp/zipfile.zip file1 file2 /var/tmp/directory1" means create a zip file called /var/tmp/zipfile.zip that contains file1, file2, and all content recursively inside directory1.
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