How to create zip archive with files with only .txt extension in Linux using terminal

Question

I have directory "Documents" with these files:

file1.txt.

file2.txt

index.html

index.php

script.pl

I want to create zip archive named files.zip with only .txt extension files using terminal. How can I do these?

Answer 1

At the basic level, if you are in the same directory that your files are in, you can do :

zip files.zip *txt

And if you want to zip the files with .txt extention, by giving the absolute path, if they are in Documents directory, which will create files.zip in the current directory you are in:

zip files.zip /the/path/to/Documents/*txt

If you also want this zipped file to be in Documents folder, you should specify it as:

zip /the/path/to/Documents/files.zip /the/path/to/Documents/*txt