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zip command terminates with an error if all of specified FILEs are directories and all of them are empty.
Execution of zip command would fail if invalid patterns are specified by -x and -i options, or, valid patterns are specified but cause conflict or all of files are excluded by the specified patterns. When this happens, zip terminates with one line message without detail information provided.
SEE ALSO
unzip
tar
gzip
gunzip