Re: How to zip a file on From Unix shell script

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:43:33PM -0800, WLSH wrote:
>
> Hello, list:
>
> We have a unix nightly job which will send an email to a user. However, the file size is very large, so we need to zip the file before we send it out. Does anyone know the syntax or command of zipping a file from UNIX ?
>

man zip

NAME

     zip, zipcloak, zipnote,  zipsplit  -  package  and  compress
     (archive) files

SYNOPSIS
     zip       [-AcdDeEfFghjklLmoqrRSTuvVwXyz@$]        [-b path]
     [-n suffixes] [-t mmddyyyy] [-tt mmddyyyy] [ zipfile [ file1
     file2 ...]]  [-xi list]

     zipcloak [-dhL] [-b path] zipfile

     zipnote [-hwL] [-b path] zipfile

     zipsplit [-hiLpst] [-n size] [-b path] zipfile

DESCRIPTION
     zip is a compression and file packaging  utility  for  Unix,
     VMS,  MSDOS,  OS/2,  Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh,
     Amiga and Acorn RISC OS.


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