Dos command to ZIP a file

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Windows 2003 zip from command line

Can somebody please, let me know that how we can zip a file in a Command line. Please, let me know.

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '09 at 23:43

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7-zip comes with a command line variant that will (un)compress to/from all the archive formats it supports (7z, zip, gz, rar, and a few others)

answered Oct 07 '09 at 23:43

David Spillett

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '09 at 23:29

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Download command line zip utility from Info-Zip.

answered Oct 07 '09 at 23:29

Sinan Ünür

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 07 '09 at 23:49

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Unxutils has a standalone command line zip programme as part of it

http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/

alternately 7zip has a cli - and it does quite a few formats.

answered Oct 07 '09 at 23:49

Journeyman Geek

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 07 '09 at 23:38

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Install the zip and unzip packages in your Cygwin environment. I wouldn't install it for just those two packages, but if you have one already, use it.

answered Oct 07 '09 at 23:38

quack quixote

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score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 08 '09 at 00:07

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there is a compress command.

answered Oct 08 '09 at 00:07

cody

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Dos command to ZIP a file

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