Neither the zip nor the unzip utilities are included in the default install of Linux. To install them from shell prompt, you must be a root user and type following two commands to install zip and unzip program.

If you are using RedHat / CentOS / Fedora then enter

# yum install zip unzip

If you are using Ubuntu / Debian then enter

# apt-get install zip unzip

zip examples

Creates the archive data.zip and puts all the files in the current directory in it in compressed form, type the following command

$ zip data *

To zip up an entire directory, type the following command

$ zip -r data *

To put the zip archive in the directory /tmp and copying over data.zip to the current directory, enter

$ zip -b /tmp data *

unzip examples

To use unzip to extract all files of the archive pics.zip into the current directory, enter

$ unzip data.zip

To extract all files into the /tmp directory, enter

$ unzip data.zip -d /tmp

To list all files from data.zip, enter

$ unzip -l data.zip

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