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   --recurse-paths
          Travel the directory structure recursively; for example:

                 zip -r foo.zip foo

          or more concisely

                 zip -r foo foo

In  this  case, all  the  files and directories in foo are saved in a zip archive
named foo.zip,including files with names starting with ".", since  the  recursion
does not use the shell's file-name substitution mechanism...   Even if it functions well I would like to propose you 7z((http://www.7-zip.org/) http://www.7-zip.org/ ). 7za a directory.7z  directory   It has a better compression and it is opensource , GNU LGPL license, freely available for windows,linux,BSD...  BTW it creates/opens 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM,and open unpack only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.  [They should pay me for advertisement :-)]   (/a/24418785) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:cac6195eb85af833,10:1744819861,16:85c501eaa3f5d6ca,8:24418785,aa72fd822cda10d623709effca7d5d4dd9e402d3394a45db7fa94404a09918a0)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/24418785/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2014-06-26 08:55:36Z) Jun 26, 2014 at 8:55         answered (2014-06-25 21:20:31Z) Jun 25, 2014 at 21:20   (/users/3569208/hastur) (Hastur's user avatar)    (/users/3569208/hastur) Hastur Hastur (reputation score) 2,908 (33 silver badges)  33  33 silver badges (38 bronze badges)  38  38 bronze badges        0   (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)             This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:7e5c76ec48251fe8,10:1744819861,16:302cdce66f74f50e,8:24418776,274c7e51e3f8289c1b2db99681efd56794ce65fdc35c0e44af236b75dc4d54bf) 8  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:24f12270090dfd8e,10:1744819861,16:a27f11745e61a952,8:24418776,056826443b0ac26d4105ba214c23718b0528f345fbbbb38bd4130515b02f158b)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/24418776/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    I think this is gonna help you  zip -r new_zip_file directory_name   Where "new_zip_file" is the name of the .zip file you want to create and "directory_name" is the folder you want compress in zip.   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To compress: zip squash.zip file1 file2 file3   or to zip a directory zip -r squash.zip dir1   To uncompress: unzip squash.zip   this unzips it in your current working directory. 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This should be quite easy and shortcompressing  tar -zcvf filename.tar myflie.sql   Decompressing  tar -xvzf filename   For more interested in knowing usage options  z - filter achieving through gzipj - filter achieve through bzip2c - create achieve filev - show the progressx - extract achieve filef - file name  cheers    (/a/48456372) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:dcb66a096de88629,10:1744819861,16:9e913b356059c228,8:48456372,0a8ea38ddf503bceb3fe25de7bef52e75e19c1331fa4fd5bee9b8a7d4ba0b8a5)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2018-01-26 05:52:14Z) Jan 26, 2018 at 5:52   (/users/6082637/assy) (Assy's user avatar)    (/users/6082637/assy) Assy Assy (reputation score) 301 (2 silver badges)  2  2 silver badges (7 bronze badges)  7  7 bronze badges           (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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input dir  /path/to/directory_to_compress to decompress tar -xvf archive_name.tar   tar is available on Windows 10 you can install it from (https://www.libarchive.org/downloads/) https://www.libarchive.org/downloads/ which will give you bsdtar.exe  which I just used to successfully decompress a xxx.tar file created on linux tar on windows (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/tar-and-curl-come-to-windows/) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/tar-and-curl-come-to-windows/    (/a/24418911) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:f9b25b8c22097b4d,10:1744819861,16:d1a0973775b8d319,8:24418911,c2fbb3b7b0e628465f8ed553efeaf01adb80bb661472af04eeb34cd2e55c8a2d)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/24418911/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2024-04-09 13:31:07Z) Apr 9, 2024 at 13:31         answered (2014-06-25 21:29:11Z) Jun 25, 2014 at 21:29   (/users/147175/scott-stensland) (Scott Stensland's user avatar)    (/users/147175/scott-stensland) Scott Stensland Scott Stensland (reputation score 28,375) 28.4k (12 gold badges)  12  12 gold badges (98 silver badges)  98  98 silver badges (109 bronze badges)  109  109 bronze badges        2 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 3   That's not ZIP, you must agree. It's not portable. – (/users/47961/eugene-mayevski-callback) (46,124 reputation) Eugene Mayevski 'Callback  Commented (2014-06-26 05:22:53Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jun 26, 2014 at 5:22      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   Exactly, why else would I be asking how to make a zip? – (/users/1278913/dan) (685 reputation) Dan  Commented (2014-06-26 08:21:08Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jun 26, 2014 at 8:21        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:4025e00b1ba19b4d,10:1744819861,16:9f20f9a2a6a604fd,8:78809231,63fcb8c70ffca717c3124da3533c5e7990fac139a3138a0364c13d3d07241bd0) 2  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:286955b489885acd,10:1744819861,16:038ac0389742e315,8:78809231,6819748641bf2a846682973eef95759cb23abef3b1e2c6c5b8d6ec4920bcf5d8)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/78809231/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    Python is installed almost everywhere, so: # create archive
python -m zipfile -c my.zip target_file_or_dir

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