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Installation

• apt-get install zip

Example of ZIP command

• zip <archive.zip> : create archive from file or file list, separated by space

• zip -e <archive.zip> : encrypt with a password

• zip -r <archive.zip> : Zip directory including subdirectory recursively

• zip -Z bzip2 <archive.zip> : specify compression method, by default method is deflate, if file can’t be compressed, store method is used

• zip -6 <archive.zip> : level of compression 0-9 (no compression – most compressed), default is 6

• zip -s <archive.zip> : create split zip file size can be: k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), g (gigabytes), t (terabytes), e.g: 1g, 100m

• zip -d <archive.zip> : delete file from archive, get list using unzip -l <archive.zip>

Example of Unzip command

• unzip <archive.zip>: unzip archive

• unzip -l <archive.zip>: list content of archive

• unzip <archive.zip> : unzip file from archive

• unzip <archive.zip> <-x file>: unzip all except file from archive