SSH Zip folders and files

Kaz Wolfe · Jan 5, 2017

I want to zip all folders and files in entire folder, how can i use zip command to do this task? Thanks for any help!

LJSHost · Jan 5, 2017

Hi Kaz

Few different ways you can do this, but this example keeps things simple:

Code:

zip -r myfiles.zip /home/mydir/

This will zip everything from /home/mydir/ and above into myfiles.zip

Vishnu · Jan 5, 2017

You can also try this below tar command to compress your files :

tar -czvf filename.tar.gz /folder/

fwh · Jan 6, 2017

LJSHost said:
Hi Kaz

Few different ways you can do this, but this example keeps things simple:

Code:

zip -r myfiles.zip /home/mydir/

This will zip everything from /home/mydir/ and above into myfiles.zip

Vishnu said:
You can also try this below tar command to compress your files :

tar -czvf filename.tar.gz /folder/

Are you sure it will zip everything in mydir/folder?

I zipped public_html folder of my websites and it missed .htaccess file

I had to use this code to zip all files/folders in a folder inclduing .htaccess file.

Code:

zip -r myfilename.zip * .htaccess

Check yours if i can include .htaccess file

Vishnu · Jan 6, 2017

You can manually Re-add the .htaccess file

Vishnu · Jan 6, 2017

In Linux .(dot) Files are hidden files !

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