How to zip a Directory using SSH with htaccess files included

If you’re like me, and work with websites made of thousands of files, whether it was php files, image files or just any file, then you already know that downloading those files through FTP can be a pain, and will eventually take a lot of time.

The easiest way to backup, migrate or move a lot of files at once, is to assemble them in one package, and zip them using SSH, then download the zip file, or use wget to transfer it on another server (Will talk about wget in my next post).

Once logged in using SSH, browse the directory you want to zip, using the cd command, for example:

Then to zip the entire directory and files recursively, we use:

To zip all the directories and files with htaccess included, use the following command:

To unzip the filename that we already zipped, simply use the below command: