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I am a newbie in Linux. Whats is the complete process to zip and unzip a directory and its files? Please mention if any installation has to be done.
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The easiest way to zip a folder on Linux is to use the “zip” command with the “-r” option and specify the file of your archive as well as the folders to be added to your zip file. You can also specify multiple folders if you want to have multiple directories compressed in your zip file.
In Linux, zipping a folder saves a lot of space and network bandwidth. Since its development in 1989, ZIP has become one of the preferred ways to compress data and reduce the file size. Using some native commands like zip, you too can zip a folder on Linux-based systems with ease.
To unzip files, open File Manager, as explained in the Zipping Files via GUI section. Right click the ZIP package you'd like to extract, and select Extract Here, as shown below. Once you click Extract Here, Linux will extract all files in the ZIP package in the working directory.
If you need to check the contents of a compressed text file on Linux, you don't have to uncompress it first. Instead, you can use a zcat or bzcat command to extract and display file contents while leaving the file intact.
To zip a folder and it's contents recursively:
zip -r archivefile foldername
To unzip a zip file:
unzip archivefile
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