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picodegallo

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Nov 22, 2010
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This is my first post. This is driving me batship insane. :cool:

All I'm trying to do is create a password protected zip file. What I'm trying to zip is a directory that contains one file and six other directories. Each of those six directories contains a couple of files.

For some reason when I go to the terminal and type zip -e desiredfilename.zip desireddirectorytozip, I get prompted twice for the password. Then it says compressing 0%.

The resulting zip doesn't have any password protection on it and it's just an empty folder anyways. Am I missing a parameter? Is there an easier way? This is such a stupid problem to waste an hour on!
 
Man pages are your friend, although admittedly, the man page for the zip command is a beast...

Code:
man zip
 
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