Hello, dev.. 👋
In this tutorial, I will share about how to create a zip file of your code directly from Visual Studio Code without an addon. We need a terminal to execute our command line.
For example, we want to zip the mahal folder, so we open the terminal from the themes folder. Right-click on the themes folder and select "Open in Integrated Terminal".
After your terminal command line is open, you can execute this command
zip -r mahal.zip mahal -x '*.git*'
Explanation:
- mahal.zip is the name of the zipped file. You can change with your need.
- -r means to zip a directory recursively. This option helps you to zip all the files present in the specified directory.
- -x means exclude the files in creating the zip. For example, we exclude the .git folder from zipping.
Good luck 🍻
Top comments (3)
Sorry, this does not work. 'zip' is not natively available in VS Code and results in:
zip : The term 'zip' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct
and try again.
I'll post back here if I find how to fix this.
Hey bro, the "zip" command is natively available in Mac OS. If you are a Mac user, this tutorial should work for you.
Ah, thanks for clarifying that ☺️
I was using Windows at the time, appreciate you replying 👍