Creating and Editing Zip Files in Linux Using the Terminal – Knowligent
Creating and Editing Zip Files in Linux Using the Terminal

Creating and Editing Zip Files in Linux Using the Terminal

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Why would you do this? Because you are a Linux user!

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In a previous article, we described how to use the tar command to create archives. While tar is a common compression scheme for Linux, it is not nearly as popular for Windows and Mac OS X users, who will find most archives created using the zip format.

It's easy to Zip (to create) and Unzip (to extract) archives in Linux. Most GUI archive managers (such as Ark, File Roller, and Xarchiver) act as a frontend to virtually any command line archiver you have on your computer, and Zip is no exception. Of course, we can also use Zip from the Terminal. Here's how.

The first step, as you might have guessed, is to open the Terminal.