Chris Wrobel wrote:
>
> I'm trying to compress a whole dir /mnt/cdrom/doc/HOWTO
> how do I do zip up a whole directory including all directories within
> it...
<snip>
If you want it to do the Unix way:
$ cd /mnt/cdrom/doc
$ tar cfz /path/to/howto.tar.gz HOWTO
If you really want to use zip:
$ cd /mnt/cdrom/doc
$ zip -rvu /path/to/hotwo.zip HOWTO
Marc
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University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
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