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How To Zip Folder on Linux

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Feb 3, 2020

From all the compression methods available, Zip is probably one of the most popular ones. Released in 1989 by Philip Katz, Zip is widely used by system administrators in order to reduce the size of bulky files and directories on your system. In this tutorial, we are going to see how you can easily zip folders and directories on Linux using the zip command.

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