How to Create and Extract Zip Files to Specific Directory in Linux | Linux Today

How to Create and Extract Zip Files to Specific Directory in Linux

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Ravi Saive
Jul 17, 2017

Zip is a simple, cross-platform file packaging and compression utility for Unix-like systems including Linux and Windows OS; plus many other operating systems. The ???zip??? format is a common archiving file format used on Windows PC’s and most importantly, it enables you to specify the compression level between 1 and 9 as an option.

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Ravi Saive

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