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How to compress a file to ZIP archive

We'll use lib:zip lib to create zip archive from file:

zip = require 'brimworks.zip'

local zip_arc = zip.open('/tmp/file.zip', zip.CREATE)
file_idx = zip_arc:add('test.txt', "file", '/tmp/test.txt')

zip_arc:close()
  • require 'brimworks.zip' - load lib:zip lib
  • zip.open - create new zip archive
  • /tmp/file.zip - name of the archive to create
  • zip_arc:add - adds new file to zip archive
  • test.txt - name of the file in zip archive (you can choose any name)
  • "file" - type of the object in archive (file in our case as we will compress file)
  • '/tmp/test.txt' - path to file to compress and save in our archive
  • zip_arc:close() - close archive handler to write changes on disk

group: zip

Example:

zip = require 'brimworks.zip'
os.remove('/tmp/file.zip');
local zip_arc = zip.open('/tmp/file.zip', zip.CREATE)
file_idx = zip_arc:add('test.txt', "file", '/tmp/test.txt')
zip_arc:close()

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