Zip

You can zip everything in a folder structure recursively by using the -r flag with the zip command. The command takes the destination folder and then the source folder for zipping.

$ zip -r place/to/zip/file.zip source/of/content

If you want to match the root directory of the resource you are zipping with zip file you are creating you must run the zip command from within the folder which is being zipped. For example, given the directory structure below…

project
├── out
└── src
	├── my_file
    └── another_file

If you run the following commanding to zip at the top level of the project pointing to src and outputting to out…

$ pwd
$ > /project
$ zip -r out/code.zip src

Then the structure of the zip would show the src folder inside the root of the .zip file followed by the content that was zipped.

code.zip
└── src
	├── my_file
    └── another_file

However, if you cd into the src folder and then run the zip command…

$ pwd
$ > /project
$ cd src
$ zip -r ../out/code.zip .

The root of the .zip file will exclude the containing folder.

code.zip
├── my_file
└── another_file