Zip a Directory

Hi All,

I need to Zip a directory which may contain files and subfolders. I saw few code in Zend where in, i need to specify all the files and subfolders.

So i looking for a command which should zip all files and folder underneath it like we do in window.

Its a Linux Server and i tried the following command which zips only the root files and not the subfolders and its files.

zip -R backup.zip speller/*

Please help!

Thank you,

Paddy

theres a tutorial on Zend on how to create zip files.

Grab that.
recurse through the directorys, reading and adding each file to the zip.

Personally I don't trust PHP to use the command line plus the PHP gz lib does the job just as good.

If you suck at PHP then head over to phpclasses.org and pick up a class to do it all for you.

If you still insist on using the command line then here's the man pages for the Zip function: http://www.cee.odu.edu/cgi-bin/cee_man-cgi?zip