zip — Package and Compress files in Zip format.
Summary:
zip is a compression and file packaging utility. The zip program puts one or more compressed files into a single zip archive, along with information about the files.
Example:
$ zip stuff * — Create stuff.zip, add current Dir files in it.
$ zip -r myzip mydir — Create myzip.zip, add mydir files in it.
$ zip -j myzip mydir/* — Same as above. But mydir name will not be recorded.
$ zip -rm myzip mydir — Delete the original files after zipping.
$ zip -r myzip mdir -x *~ — Exclude all files that end in ~.
$ zip -u stuff * — If myzip.zip is already exist then, update new and modified files from the current Dir.
$ zip -R foo ‘*.c’ — Travel the Dirs recursively starting at the current directory and zip all C files.
$ zip -n .Z:.zip:.tiff:.gif:.snd myzip * — Create myzip.zip file, add files from current Dir and Don’t try compress the specified files.
$ zip -rt 2005-06-06 myzip mydir — Zip all the files in foo and its subdirs that were last modified on or AFTER 06-06-2005.
$ zip -rtt 2005-06-06 myzip mydir — Zip all the files in foo and its subdirs that were last modified BEFORE 06-06-2005.
Read: man zip (Lot of examples are available)