Linux 101: How to create a zip file in Linux Jack Wallen walks you through the process of zipping and unzipping files in Linux from both the command line and the GUI.

Jack Wallen offers up a Linux desktop tip that can help make just about any Linux workflow considerably easier.

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.

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 ...

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.

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.