From the man page - a little confusing that the args are 'foo' and 'foo'. The first arg is turned into 'foo.zip'. The second arg is the file spec (of files which will be placed into the.zip) To zip up an entire directory, the command: zip -r foo foo creates the archive foo.zip, containing all the files and direc.

• Mac Zip To Multiple Files
• How Do You Cut And Paste Files From One Folder To Another?
• How To Compress Files Zip

Suppose that you want to attach a file on an e-mail message but the file is too large for sending through your mail server. Or you want to copy a file to USB drive but the file size is exceed the limit of your USB drive can hold.

1. Mac and Linux users will want to stick with tar.gz, tar.bz2 or 7z (though Mac users will need a program like GUI Tar to create these formats, unless they want to delve into the command line.
2. Thankfully, the clever little ZIP utility has a handy function that can split our archive into smaller chunks for later re-assembly. Here’s how it works: zip -r -s 200M archive.zip myfiles/. This will create an archive of all files and subfolders in myfiles, creating a new file every 200MiB (about 10% more than 200MB).
3. HypotheticalFILE4.zip HypotheticalFILE5.zip Rather than double-clicking each.zip file (which most of the time creates folders for each file extracted) you can run a command from the Terminal which will extract all the files in to the same directory. Open Terminal and navigate to the directory where all the zip files are stored.

To solve these problems, you can split the large file into smaller files using Zip software. So, you can attach these smaller files to e-mail messages or copy to your USB drive as you want. To get the original file back, you can open these smaller files using any Zip software and you’ll get the original file.

Mac Zip To Multiple Files

In this post, I’ll show how to split a large file into smaller files using 7-Zip. 7-Zip is an open source software which can compressed/uncompressed file in various formats. Other Zip softwares such as WinZip, WinRar, etc. can do this, too. The steps are similar to 7-Zip.

Step-by-step split large file using 7-Zip

How Do You Cut And Paste Files From One Folder To Another?

1. Download and install 7-Zip on the PC. You can download it from http://www.7-zip.org.
   
2. In this example, I’ll split Book.pdf (~30 MB.) into smaller Zip files which the file size must not exceed 10 MB.
   
3. Right-click on the file -> Select 7-Zip ->Add to archive.
   
4. On Add to Archive,
   • Name the archive file.
   • Select archive format.
   • Define file size limit you want. In this example, I’ll limit to 10MB.
   • Click OK.
5. The program is compressing the file.
   
6. When finishes, you’ll see that a large file is split into new smaller Zip files which size are limit as you defined. In this example, I get 3 file: Book.zip.001, Book.zip.002 and Book.zip.003.
   
7. To get the original file from these Zip files, right-click one of these Zip files -> select 7-Zip -> click Open archive.
   Note: You can open these Zip files with other Zip software since they are .zip file now.
   
8. The 7-Zip program will be opened and you’ll see the original file.
   

How To Compress Files Zip