Hey! Did you see what Daniel Knapp wrote on May 29 ?
DK> I want to zip a directory with many subdirectories in it but if I use zip
DK> only the current path is zipped. Is there a way to zip it recursively?
DK> I've read the man pages but they don't help me in that way.
I just had a look at zip's man page, it does look a tad confusing.
But there does seem to be a recursive option (-r).
You could use tar/gzip or tar/bzip2 if you can't get your head
around zip...
tar/gzip:
tar -cvzf foo.tar.gz /foo/
tar/bzip2:
tar -cvyf foo.tar.bz2 /foo/
Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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