How to zip a file on From Unix shell script

From: WLSH <wlsh1961_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:43:33 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004EB69D.20021016144333@fatcity.com>

Hello, list:

We have a unix nightly job which will send an email to a user. However, the file size is very large, so we need to zip the file before we send it out. Does anyone know the syntax or command of zipping a file from UNIX ?  

Regards,

WLSH1961_at_yahoo.com

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