Zip including hidden files

Question

In Linux I can zip all(except hidden files) in current directory by doing:

zip 1.zip *

But how do I include the hidden files?

score 169 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 23 '20 at 17:55

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EDIT: The correct way is zip -r 1.zip .

The commands shown in my previous answer below are incorrect because they also include the parent directory.

Have you tried this:

zip yourfile.zip sourcedir/* .*

or you in your case

zip 1.zip * .[^.]*'

It should include all hidden files also.

edited Sep 23 '20 at 17:55

liamvictor

answered Sep 19 '12 at 10:50

Gunnar

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that pretty much works but now im also getting ../ which i dont think i want. – john-jones Sep 19 '12 at 10:54
by ../ you mean, you are also compressing files from the directory above? – Gunnar Sep 19 '12 at 11:00
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apparently. When i do zip 1.zip * .* (in a folder with subfolder a and a hidden file called '.hidden_file') i get: – john-jones Sep 19 '12 at 11:03
adding: a/ (stored 0%) adding: ../ (stored 0%) adding: .hidden_file (stored 0%) – john-jones Sep 19 '12 at 11:04
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or as you said, 'zip -r 1.zip .', which also works and is simpler. – john-jones Sep 19 '12 at 11:12

score 23 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '16 at 06:56

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Or you can add more simple

zip 1.zip ./

answered Mar 24 '16 at 06:56

pictoru

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '15 at 07:03

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Just to be sure it is not forgotten since this is a forum for developers and a good number of us use git.

An easy way to get only what you want in the zip is to use git archive -o filename.zip branch

answered Aug 05 '15 at 07:03

code

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Thank you! That was exactly what I needed: a lot less troubles than manually calling `zip`. – Egon Apr 04 '16 at 20:33
This approach doesn't include the `.git/` directory though – ScottMcC Feb 13 '20 at 03:49
@ScottMcC If you needed something that was already git related, wouldn't you just clone it? – code Feb 13 '20 at 07:05
It would be nice for transferring with scp – William Rusnack Mar 12 '20 at 21:12

D z · Answer 4 · 2020-04-07T09:39:30.170

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If you want to zip all files (+hidden files) Kindly using: zip -r namefiles.zip . The "." is all files in folder.

zip -r namefiles.zip "folder will zip"

edited Apr 07 '20 at 09:39

answered Jan 14 '16 at 02:24

D z

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How is your answer different to the accepted answer, which states "The correct way is `zip -r 1.zip .`"? – Simon MᶜKenzie Jan 14 '16 at 02:34
@SimonMᶜKenzie He also explained what "." means. That made the difference I suppose. – Chung Lun Yuen Oct 15 '16 at 07:18
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The "." is NOT all files in folder. It means the "current folder" itself, which would ultimately include all its contents. – Izhar Aazmi Aug 11 '17 at 07:33

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 03 '19 at 19:13

if you don't have rights to save zip file in current dir you can go to dir where you have rights and type

zip -r 1.zip /path/to/source/dir/.

However when if in .../some_dir you type

unzip 1.zip

then your files will be decompress into .../some_dir/path/to/source/dir/

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 05 '21 at 10:43

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On macOS 10.15.7 I had to separatelly add all dot leading files (\.*) and rest of the files (*):

zip -r file.zip \.* *

answered Apr 05 '21 at 10:43

Viliam Jobko

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