Zip together all HTML files under current directory

Question

I am looking to zip together *.html files recursively under the current directory.

My current command is:

zip all-html-files.zip *.html 

But this doesn't work recursively. Nor does adding the -r option it seems. Can anybody advise? I want to zip all html files under the current directory, including those underneath subdirectories, but zip the HTML files only, not their file folders.

Thanks!

Answer 1

What about this?

find /your/path/ -type f -name "*.html" | xargs zip all_html_files.zip

looks for all .html files under the directory /your/path (change it for yours). Then, pipes the result to xargs, which creates the zip file.

To junk the paths, add -j option:

find /your/path/ -type f -name "*.html" | xargs zip -j all_html_files.zip