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I keep forgetting the command to zip a folder in Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4). And I have even got all files in the folder got zipped individually when I typed the command wrongly, which looked funny to me. The correct command, to remind myself:
zip -9 -r
To zip a single file:
zip -9
Use “-9″ for best compression. The compressed file works fine with Windows XP compression tool.
If you want to extract to a particular destination folder, you can use:
unzip file.zip -d destination_folder
Original: http://blog.enrii.com/2007/05/31/zip-a-folder-in-linux/