SSH Script to Compress Folder on server

Hi,

Can anyone please give me a url of an SSH script to compress a folder on server.

Thanks in advance

 

 $ zip -r folder.zip folder 

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Thanks for reply. Rep given.

I thought that ZIP does not exist in Unix. Tar file.

 

It usually is bundled with newer distros, if not you can download it and or use a package manager.

yum install zip unzip

OR

apt-get install zip

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I personally use tar/gzip though.

tar -cf blah.tar folder/
gzip -9 blah.tar

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I don't really see the benefit of zip.
if you run
tar czvf folder.tgz folder
you get a compressed (gzip compressed) tar file without having to install anything

 

I'm partial to bzip2, as it tends to compress better than gzip.

tar jcvf filename.tbz folder

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Note: it does take a bit longer to compress if there's a large amount of data.