UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All,
I have a set of large files ~ 500_900Mb I have generated and I'd like to quickly zip and copy them to a new folder elsewhere ...

Can anyone suggest a quicky ??

Cheers

Without more detail that's difficult.

if all files are in one folder /XXX/BBB, you can run this:

Code:

cd /XXX
tar cvf - BBB |gzip > /new/folder/here/BBB.tar.gz

Hi
Quoting from man zip

"The zip program puts one or more compressed files into a single zip archive, along with information about the files (name, path, date, time of last modification, protection, and check information to verify file integrity). An entire directory structure can be packed into a zip archive with a single command."

Travel the directory structure recursively starting at the current directory; for example:

Code:

 zip -R foo '*.c'

In this case, all the files matching *.c in the tree starting at the current directory are stored into a zip archive named foo.zip.

Please look into man pages of zip.