Together, we're going to zip and unzip a file on Linux. I'll show you first how to do it from the command line and then using the GNOME File Manager GUI.

But, zip remains the most commonly used format. If you’re on a Linux system, zipping and unzipping files (compressing and decompressing) is a task that you can accomplish from the command line ...

Spread the loveZIP files are compressed archives that hold multiple files in one compressed file. When we download files from the internet, they are often compressed to reduce their size and make them ...

In this how-to, we’ll look at the zip command, a useful utility that enables us to specify lists of files, set a level of data compression and create compressed archives. Whilst you become ...

The zip command in Linux is probably the simplest and most intuitive way to work with ZIP files on the command line. And not just that, the ZIP file format is universal – almost every OS out there has ...

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...

Let us see how you can use the zip command to create a zip file, add a new file to an existing zip file, list zip file content without extracting it, delete the contents of zip, and encrypt zip with a ...

Dealing with archives can be intimidating for beginners in Linux. In this article, we tell you how to zip and unzip .GZ archives in Linux.

It's fairly easy to extract a zip archive in Linux. Even so, there are more advanced ways you can open zip files and deal with their contents.