Together, we're going to zip and unzip a file on Linux. I'll show you first how to do it from the command line and then using the GNOME File Manager GUI.

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.

How to Zip a File in Ubuntu. Many Ubuntu Linux file archives have the "tar.gz" file extension and were created using the standard tar and gzip utilities. Although the name is similar, gzip does ...

There are quite a few interesting things that you can do with "zip" commands on Linux other than compress and uncompress files. Here are some other zip options and how they can help.

How to Extract Zip Files in Ubuntu. Business files are often delivered in a variety of zipped file formats designed to compress the contained files into a smaller size, enabling the files to be ...

Windows Windows supports creating compressed files via PowerShell from v5.0+, however, while it natively supports ZIP creation it does not support encryption and has a file limit of just 2GB.