Using SSH to Zip files

Does anyone know how I would zip up an entire directory's files one by one with one command?

For instance. If the directory has 200 files how would I zip each one separately using ssh.

 

find . -type f -exec zip '{}.zip' '{}' \;

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tar.gz is better for linux

so, to compress

tar -cvzf filename.tar.gz /home/path

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and to decompress

tar -xvzf filename

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Worked like a charm ;] Thanks

 

I agree tar is better for Linux.

 

zip is user friendly for a wider audience than tar/rar/etc.
In any event, if you want to gzip each file individually rather than zip them.

find . -type f -exec tar -cvzf '{}.gz' '{}' \;

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