Here are some of my compression and archiving (packing, zipping) application settings. See also: Useful Compression and Archiving Applications, Download / File Transfer Application Settings, File Integrity Application Settings, Network Device Settings, Programs, Software.
Problem
WinZip does not like non-ASCII characters in the folder where the zip file is. Put the zip file to another folder with a simple name.
Simple example: zip all files on current directory
zip name1.zip -v -r *
-r: save recursively files
-v: verbose mode
Another example: zip files on a certain directory
zip -v -j -s 700m name2.zip -r directory1 -i \*.c -x \*.o -z
-i: only include the specified files (.c files in the current and its subdirectories in the above example)
-j: store only files, not directory locations
-r: save recursively files inside directory1
-s: split archive in multiple files (700 megabyte files in the above example)
-v: verbose mode
-x: exclude specified files (.o files in the above example)
-z: prompt for a comment for the entire zip file
From Mac to Windows: include files
zip -v -j name.zip *.java
From Mac to Windows: remove __MACOSX directory from zip file
zip -d Archive.zip __MACOSX/\*
Comment: if on Finder you selected multiple files, right mouse clicked and selected the "Compress * Items", OS X includes a __MACOSX directory in the zip file.
Last modified: March 7th, 2018
Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)
URL: http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/compression-archiving-settings