How to archive all files of any nesting in a folder in Linux?

Question

linux

Let's say there is a folder that contains n-folders and files, which also contain n-folders and files, etc. You can calculate the maximum nesting and do everything with a command like

zip file.zip file/*/*/*...

, but I think there should be a more concise way.

Answer 1

tar -czvf archive.tar.gz /path/to/archived/dir

Answer 2

zip -r -0 archive.zip .
where dot is the current folder.

Answer 3

If you want to limit archiving by depth, you can use
find -maxdepth N