In MS Windows, you can zip files or directories by simply right-clicking on selected files or directories. Whereas, in Linux, you have to use the zip utility. In this article, I will show you how to compress files, directories and then unzip them.

Zip files or directories

The general syntax is: zip [options] zipfile files_list.

For example, the following command will compress the whole to-send directory to send.zip file.

zip -r send.zip to-send/

Unzip

To unzip, simply execute zip with the zipfilename. For example,

unzip send.zip