how to zip a dir to a different location

shravee · 11-04-2009, 11:25 PM

hi,
can anybody tell me the exact command to zip a dir from the current location to a different location.

currently now i am in cat directory, which contains 15 files.

I need to zip it to a different location say /root/Desktop

i tried this way.

zip -b /root/Desktop archivefile.zip ./*

the compressing is successful but it is happening in the same dir.
i could not see any archive folder in /root/Desktop/

-- shravee

evo2 · 11-04-2009, 11:40 PM

zip? Hmm. Knew about unzip, didn't know linux distros shipped with zip. Personally I would use tar.

% tar czf /root/Desktop/archivefile.tar.gz ./*

Evo2.

himanshugarg04 · 11-04-2009, 11:49 PM

exactly zip doesnot supported in linux....so tar is compressed file

pixellany · 11-05-2009, 07:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by himanshugarg04

exactly zip doesnot supported in linux....so tar is compressed file

What??

zip is available in Linux---but gzip and bzip2 are more common.

tar by itself does not do compression.

onebuck · 11-05-2009, 07:43 AM

Hi,

Quote:

excerpt from 'man zip';

NAME
zip - package and compress (archive) files

SYNOPSIS
zip [-aABcdDeEfFghjklLmoqrRSTuvVwXyz!@$] [--longoption ...] [-b path] [-n suffixes] [-t date]
[-tt date] [zipfile [file ...]] [-xi list]

zipcloak (see separate man page)

zipnote (see separate man page)

zipsplit (see separate man page)

Note: Command line processing in zip has been changed to support long options and handle all
options and arguments more consistently. Some old command lines that depend on command line
inconsistencies may no longer work.

DESCRIPTION
zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT/XP,
Minix, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, and Acorn RISC OS. It is analogous to a combination of the Unix
commands tar(1) and compress(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz's ZIP for MSDOS systems).

A companion program (unzip(1L)) unpacks zip archives. The zip and unzip(1L) programs can work
with archives produced by PKZIP (supporting most PKZIP features up to PKZIP version 4.6), and
PKZIP and PKUNZIP can work with archives produced by zip (with some exceptions, notably streamed
archives, but recent changes in the zip file standard may facilitate better compatibility). zip
version 3.0 is compatible with PKZIP 2.04 and also supports the Zip64 extensions of PKZIP 4.5 .....

If indeed you need to use 'zip' then I suggest that you read the 'man zip' pages.