ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. In Ubuntu Linux, zip and unzip are utility tools we need to install in the system if not installed zip unzip utility.
For zip utility in ubuntu, run following command:
sudo apt-get install zip
For unzip utility in ubuntu, run following command:
sudo apt-get install unzip
go to directory which you want to compress. or you can get help from utility itself by typing zip --help
zip -r fileName *
uncompressing or extracting of .zip file in your Linux based Ubuntu system is as:
sudo unzip source_file_path/source_file.zip -d destination_path
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