Writing linux command output to file

In case you want to write the output of a command in linux terminal in text file, type the command as follows: Here I am giving an example of 'ls' command

ls > filename.txt

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Zip folder without compression on linux terminal

I used the following command:

zip -r -0 projects_7Feb16.zip projects/

This created zip file named  'projects_7Feb16.zip'  of the folder named as "projects" in the current working directory (cwd)

Note: My current working direcotory was a folder where "projects" folder was situated. One needs to give full path of the folder if cwd is different.

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