Zipping files in Ubuntu is easy just use tar
To create a tar with Gzip compression (recursive by default):
tar czf zip_of_relative_path_recursive.tar.gz relative/path
To extract files from tar using Gzip to the current directory:
tar xzf relative/path/to/zip_of_relative_path_recursive.tar.gz
References:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5798678&postcount=7
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