ZIP(1)                      General Commands Manual                      ZIP(1)

NAME
       zip - package and compress (archive) files

SYNOPSIS
       zip  [-aABcdDeEfFghjklLmoqrRSTuvVwXyz!@$]  [--longoption ...]  [-b path]
       [-n suffixes] [-t date] [-tt date] [zipfile [file ...]]  [‐xi list]

       zipcloak (see separate man page)

       zipnote (see separate man page)

       zipsplit (see separate man page)

       Note:  Command line processing in zip has been changed to  support  long
       options  and  handle  all options and arguments more consistently.  Some
       old command lines that depend on command  line  inconsistencies  may  no
       longer work.

DESCRIPTION
       zip  is  a  compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS,
       OS/2, Windows 9x/NT/XP, Minix, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, and  Acorn  RISC
       OS.   It  is  analogous to a combination of the Unix commands tar(1) and
       compress(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz’s ZIP for MSDOS sys‐
       tems).

       A companion program (unzip(1)) unpacks zip archives.  The  zip  and  un‐
       zip(1)  programs  can  work  with archives produced by PKZIP (supporting
       most PKZIP features up to PKZIP version 4.6), and PKZIP and PKUNZIP  can
       work  with  archives  produced  by  zip  (with  some exceptions, notably
       streamed archives, but recent changes in the zip file standard  may  fa‐
       cilitate  better  compatibility).   zip  version  3.0 is compatible with
       PKZIP 2.04 and also supports the Zip64 extensions of PKZIP 4.5 which al‐
       low archives as well as files to exceed the previous 2 GB limit (4 GB in
       some cases).  zip also now supports bzip2 compression if the  bzip2  li‐
       brary  is  included when zip is compiled.  Note that PKUNZIP 1.10 cannot
       extract files produced by PKZIP 2.04 or zip 3.0. You  must  use  PKUNZIP
       2.04g or unzip 5.0p1 (or later versions) to extract them.

       See the EXAMPLES section at the bottom of this page for examples of some
       typical uses of zip.

       Large Archives and Zip64.   zip  automatically uses the Zip64 extensions
       when files larger than 4 GB are added to an archive, an archive contain‐
       ing Zip64 entries is updated  (if  the  resulting  archive  still  needs
       Zip64),  the size of the archive will exceed 4 GB, or when the number of
       entries in the archive will exceed about 64K.  Zip64 is  also  used  for
       archives  streamed  from standard input as the size of such archives are
       not known in advance, but the option -fz- can be used to  force  zip  to
       create  PKZIP 2 compatible archives (as long as Zip64 extensions are not
       needed).  You must use a PKZIP 4.5 compatible unzip, such  as  unzip 6.0
       or later, to extract files using the Zip64 extensions.

       In  addition, streamed archives, entries encrypted with standard encryp‐
       tion, or split archives created with the pause option may not be compat‐
       ible with PKZIP as data descriptors are used and PKZIP at  the  time  of
       this  writing  does  not support data descriptors (but recent changes in
       the PKWare published zip standard now include some support for the  data
       descriptor format zip uses).

       Mac OS X.  Though previous Mac versions had their own zip port, zip sup‐
       ports  Mac  OS  X as part of the Unix port and most Unix features apply.
       References to "MacOS" below generally refer to MacOS versions older than
       OS X.  Support for some Mac OS features in the Unix Mac OS X port,  such
       as resource forks, is expected in the next zip release.

       For a brief help on zip and unzip, run each without specifying any para‐
       meters on the command line.

USE
       The program is useful for packaging a set of files for distribution; for
       archiving  files;  and  for saving disk space by temporarily compressing
       unused files or directories.