Life of an Admin

To zip and unzip files under linux, you need to install zip and unzip programs.

These can be installed by
# apt-get install zip
# apt-get install unzip

or under Red Hat installations by
# yum install zip
# yum install unzip

To zip use
$ zip abc *
this will zip all files in current directory and create abc.zip

$ zip -r abc *
this will zip all files in current directory and subdirectories and create abc.zip

To Unzip
$ unzip abc.zip
will extract all files in current directory

$ unzip abc.zip -d /dir1
will extract all files in /dir1 directory

$ unzip -l abc.zip
this will just list the files in the zip file