Linux Command zip

zip 是 Linux 下用于创建压缩包的命令.

Test directory:

ROOT="requests-project"

${ROOT}
|--- requests
    |--- utils
        |--- __init__.py
    |--- __init__.py
    |--- api.py
    |--- response.py
|--- MakeFile
|--- README.txt

  • zip -r {output-filename} {filelist}

  • zip requests.zip requests -r: compress requests folder, recursively.

Assuming that, current directory is requests-project.

Compress entire folder, include the folder itself

$ cd ${ROOT}
$ cd ..
$ zip requests-project.zip requests-project -r

content of requests-project.zip:

|---requests-project
    |--- requests
        |--- utils
            |--- __init__.py
        |--- __init__.py
        |--- api.py
        |--- response.py
    |--- MakeFile
    |--- README.txt

Compress entire folder, exclude the folder it self

$ cd ${ROOT}
$ zip ../requests-project.zip * -r

content of requests-project.zip:

|--- requests
    |--- utils
        |--- __init__.py
    |--- __init__.py
    |--- api.py
    |--- response.py
|--- MakeFile
|--- README.txt

Frequently Used Options

  • include these only: -i *.py *.txt *.rst

  • exclude theses: -x *.zip *.json *.pk

Becareful with *, sometime you need to add escape char \ before that. For example:

  • exclude .json file: zip mydir.zip mydir -r -x \*.json

  • exclude the pip folder: zip site-package.zip site-package -r -x pip\*