how to pass multiple files to zip for zipping

Question

Say I have a list of files a.txt, b.txt, c.txt, is it possible to pass it to zip command as arguments and make it zip it in one file say a.zip?

Answer 1

Sure. The man page of zip says you can specify [file ...] on the command line. This notation says you can specify multiple files separated by spaces, like this:

zip a.zip a.txt b.txt c.txt

You can also utilize pathname expansion. The shell will replace wildcards used in the filename with all matching filenames. Example:

zip a.zip *.txt