Question

For recursive compression, zip uses -r option.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was addressed to me in examination.

My query is from Compressing and Archiving Files in section Handling Ordinary Files of Unix

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) True

For explanation I would say: Just like other UNIX commands, zip command can also perform recursive compression. In recursive compression, it will compress all the subdirectories and files that will be encountered while tracing the tree structure.