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Zip a folder in Linux


The command to zip a folder in Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4) is as below:

zip -9 -r <zip file> <folder name>

To zip a single file:
zip -9 <zip file> <filename>

Use “-9″ for best compression. The compressed file works fine with Windows XP compression tool.

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