UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Originally Posted by mohanprabu

But when I do this, I get the following message:

"Nothing to do".

Actually I have a dir "adhoc" and there are several files and dirs inside adhoc, and I want to compress this adhoc folder. So what I gave is this:

zip -r adhoc

Do I miss anywhere!?

-r Travel the directory structure recursively;
for example:

zip -r foo foo

In this case, all the files and directories
in foo are saved in a zip archive named
foo.zip, including files with names starting
with ".", since the recursion does not use
the shell's file-name substitution mecha-
nism. If you wish to include only a spe-
cific subset of the files in directory foo
and its subdirectories, use the -i option to
specify the pattern of files to be included.
You should not use -r with the name ".*",
since that matches ".." which will attempt
to zip up the parent directory (probably not
what was intended).