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