# Instead use the -r option
```
$ zip -r src.zip ./src/
§ zip src.zip ./src/**/* <-- Dont do this - Globs won't work as expected
```
# List zip content (unzip -l)
```
$ unzip -l pod_until_2022-12-29.zip > log.txt
```
# List zip content while outputing to external file
Ideal wen zip contains to many files
```
$ unzip -l pod_until_2022-12-29.zip > log.txt
```
# Look for a particular file inside the zip
```
$ unzip -l pod_until_2022-12-29.zip | egrep file-name-to-search
```
# Appending files/folders to a particular zip
```
# cd into folder where files are kept
# then run:
$ zip -ur path/to/existing.zip ./folder1 ./folder2 ./file1.txt
```
Creates the archive data.zip and puts all the files in
the current directory in it in compressed form, type:
```
$ zip data *
```
To zip up an entire directory (including all subdirectories), type the following command:
```
$ zip -r data *
```
## unziping files/directories examples
To use unzip to extract all files of the archive pics.zip into the current directory & subdirectories:
```
$ unzip pics.zip
```
You can also test a .zip printing only a summary message
indicating whether the archive is OK or not:
```
$ unzip -tq my.zip
```
To extract the file called cv.doc from pics.zip:
```
$ unzip pics.zip cv.doc
```
To extract all files into a particular folder:
```
$ unzip pics.zip -d /tmp
```
