Creating Zip of directory in Unix m/c

on Unix m/c i have folder in which there are few more folders.. I wants to make zip file of parent folder. and i should able to unzip this zip file in windows m/c.. Can you please advice..

thanks开发者_高级运维 in advance..

given that the program 'zip' is available, the following should work:

zip -r archive_name.zip folder

From midnight commander highlight the directory that you want to zip, then press F2 to get to the user menu, then @ to perform an operation on it. You can now enter zip -r archive.zip followed by return, where archive.zip is that name of the zip file that you want to create.

zip -r parent-directory parent-directory

If you have zip installed on your Unix host.

It will create parent-directory.zip file and it can be unzipped on Windows using native unzip Windows program.