Compressing files and storing them in a ZIP archive is very useful when you want to save space or send a collection of files as a single item. Let’s learn how to create an archive from the ...

This will create the new zip file in the current working directory. To unzip a compressed file, right-click it and select Extract Here ( Figure 3 ). Figure 3: Unzipping a file the GUI way in Linux.

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 ...