You can extract a single file from a zip file if you specify its name as listed in the zip file. Here’s an example command where the original file (maybe it’s been damaged in some way) is ...

The Linux command used for compressing files and directories is zip -r. Enter your command in the format: zip -r <zip file name> <directory name> In the example above, I have created a zip file ...

Both the Linux zip and zipcloak commands can create encrypted zip files, but they have some important and interesting differences. Here’s what you need to know about how they work and what you ...

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 ...