Why doesn't zip zip all the directories?

[giveasyouget]

hello there!
Still dealing with webserver issues, and the ftpserver on the old machine is ****e giving timeouts constantly (partly since i'm coming thru a university firewall)
I decided to zip up all the old scripts and things yet on unzipping them my end it's bizarrely only included one directory into the zip file, while I can plainly see the other directories exist and were not lost when the hard drive crashed - nor am i recieving any errors.
I'm using ssh to zip up the files, typing

zip -r0 giveasyouget.zip *.*

yet only get one dir.. am I being a muppet or is it the zip program?
Could it be related to permissions and ownership? (tho to be fair i'm shhing in using the root login so surely that shouldn't be a problem?)

Any ideas would be much appreciated - cheers!
jonny

[Rich]

Not used zip on linux before, but the one on my server states

Travel the directory structure recursively; for example: zip -r foo foo In this case, all the files and directories in foo are saved in a zip archive named foo.zip, including files with names starting with ".", since the recursion does not use the shellâs file-name substitution mechanism. If you wish to include only a specific subset of the files in directory foo and its subdirectories, use the -i option to specify the pattern of files to be included. You should not use -r with the name ".*", since that matches ".." which will attempt to zip up the parent directory (probably not what was intended).

So it might be easier to go up a folder and do zip -r giveasyouget.zip foldername.

edit: actually the problem probably is that your match of *.* is a bit of a DOS throwback, and ti linux will mean any thing with a . in it - which probably doesn't include your folder names. Changing *.* to * would probably also fix it.

[giveasyouget]

well spotted, it was my old dos days creeping in.
Many thanks n cheers for the moral support yesterday too