Sample Zip Summary - UN*X

$ zip -H ! Or Zip -?

Copyright (C) 1990-1997 Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-loup Gailly,

Onno van der Linden, Christian Spieler and Igor Mandrichenko.

Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.

Zip 2.2 (November 3rd 1997). Usage: zip=="$disk:[dir]zip.exe"

zip [-options] [-b path] [-t mmddyyyy] [-n suffixes] [zipfile list] [-xi list]

The default action is to add or replace zipfile entries from list, which

can include the special name - to compress standard input.

If zipfile and list are omitted, zip compresses stdin to stdout.

-f freshen: only changed files -u update: only changed or new files

-d delete entries in zipfile -m move into zipfile (delete files)

-R recurse into directories -j junk (don't record) directory names

-0 store only -l convert LF to CR LF (-ll CR LF to LF)

-1 compress faster -9 compress better

-q quiet operation -v verbose operation/print version info

-c add one-line comments -z add zipfile comment

-@ read names from stdin -o make zipfile as old as latest entry

-x exclude the following names -i include only the following names

"-F" fix zipfile("-FF" try harder) "-D" do not add directory entries

"-A" adjust self-extracting exe "-J" junk zipfile prefix (unzipsfx)

"-T" test zipfile integrity "-X" eXclude eXtra file attributes

"-V" save VMS file attributes -w append version number to stored name

-h show this help -n don't compress these suffixes

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