The highly compatible zip, unzip and zipcloak commands on Linux can help you create encrypted zip files and extract their contents as needed.

In this how-to, we’ll look at the zip command, a useful utility that enables us to specify lists of files, set a level of data compression and create compressed archives. Whilst you become ...

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.

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 Linux version of 7-Zip can perform all the same actions as the Windows version of 7-zip, but it’s only available as a command line utility for now.

But the Linux app lacks any true graphical user interface or GUI as a front end. That leaves 7-Zip and p7Zip technology out of reach for many Linux users. The command-line-only interface is too ...