Getting too much performance from your zip?

Wanting to create a backup of this website, I searched how to do maximum compression on linux. The result that came up showed some stellar performance.

I tried that same command zip -9 myzip.zip Desktop. It shrunk 68MB down to 12KB. WOW. That was until I realised there was nothing inside the zip. The above command did not use the -r options, which meant directories were not included. Teh correct command should have been zip -9 -r myzip.zip Desktop

Be wary when using linux commands and check if you need the recursive flag or not. A bunch of commands I use often and require the recursive flag are scp, rsync, chown, chmod. Happy zipping!

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