From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-10-30T13:54:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Zip an existing directory?

Peter Marks wrote:
> Thanks for the help guys. I am developing in osx and will deploy in 
> ubuntu (this is for a rails app). My original command does not work in 
> the command line, nor does zip --help on my local machine.
> 
> The command you suggested, Ed, gives the following response:
> 
> adding: Users/petermarks/Desktop/orbus/public/1/daily/2007-10-29/ 
> (stored 0%)
> 
> The archive it produces contains the folders of the intended archive's 
> path, but not the contents of the "2007-10-29" folder. I need to archive 
> the contents of that folder. Any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Peter

zip -r archive.zip 
Users/petermarks/Desktop/orbus/public/1/daily/2007-10-29/

I forgot the "-r" (for recursive).