Compress / decompress a ZIP FILE

Last update on January 8, 2009 10:52 AM by deri58
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Compress / decompress a ZIP FILE








ZIP files are specifically used under Microsoft Windows. Under Linux, the compression format is GZip (.Gz) format or Tarball(.Tar.gz).

You can compress and decompress ZIP files with zip / unzip, available on most distributions.

To compress a set of files, use the following command:
zip-r filename.zip file_directory

The -r indicates that the contents of the directory to be compressed as well as sub-directories.

To unzip a file, use the following command:
filename.zip unzip-d destination
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