zip

Compress files into zip file.

Syntax

• res = zip(zipname, files)
• res = zip(zipname, files, rootdir)

Input argument

• zipname - a string: zip archive destination file.
• files - a character vector, a cell array of character vectors, or a string array: Names of files or folders to compress.
• rootdir - a character vector or string scalar: root path for the files to compress.

Output argument

• res - a cell array of character vectors containing the names of the files included in zip archive.

Description

zip compress files and directories into zip archive.

Each individual file must be smaller than 4 GB.

Number of files specified must be less than 65535.

Example

zip([tempdir(), 'test.zip'], [nelsonroot(), '/module_skeleton'])

See also

unzip.

History

Author

Allan CORNET