How can I create a archive/zip of a whole directory via terminal?

Create Zip file using Ubuntu command

For creating the zip you have installed zip. For installing zip execute the below command to terminal

 sudo apt-get install zip  

After the install the zip executes the below command into the terminal for creating zip files

 zip -r myfiles.zip myfiles  

-r (recursive) –r  option is zip whole directories and files trees at once

 myfiles is the directory path which needs  to convert into a zip file.

produced zip name of the zip which have the directory structure as well as the files .

You can also tell where the zip file will. Here is the example /home/ubuntu/myfiles.zip, myfiles.zip will store at home /home/ubuntu/ path.

 The zip command comes with documentation telling you about all of its (many) options; type

 man zip  

to see that documentation.