Jack Wallen walks you through the process of zipping and unzipping files in Linux from both the command line and the GUI.

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them.

The zip command lets you compress files to preserve them or back them up, and you can require a password to extract the contents of a zip file.

Instead of re-creating your tar archives when you need to add files, why not simply append those files? Jack Wallen shows you how from the command line and a GUI file manager on Linux.

How to View ZIP Files in Unix. The ZIP archive is recognized by most operating systems, thus making it useful for compressing and archiving files regardless of the OS that your employees or ...