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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.

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  • Until it is confirmed that he is indeed searching for a cmd, and not DOS, I don't see how this is a duplicate. Btw, to original author: look at pkzip /? and pkunzip /?
    – Rook
    Jan 5, 2010 at 0:31

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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)

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Download command line zip utility from Info-Zip.

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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.

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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.

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there is a compress command.

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  • Compress is different from zip, but it's a good point, in that DOS does have a standard way of compressing files. Just not a very good or compatible one :)
    – Lee B
    Oct 8, 2009 at 11:50