There are several tools for compressing and decompressing files in Linux, you can get a summary of these tools in this link. Zip is one of the utilities used for packaging, compressing (archive) and decompressing files.
Installation
1 2 | sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zip unzip
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Compress files
Compress files in a directory named tutorial –
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | $ zip -r tutorial.zip tutorial/
adding: tutorial/ (stored 0%)
adding: tutorial/host.conf (deflated 13%)
adding: tutorial/hostname (stored 0%)
adding: tutorial/hosts.deny (deflated 44%)
adding: tutorial/hosts (deflated 35%)
adding: tutorial/hosts.allow (deflated 42%)
adding: tutorial/auth_sa.py (deflated 52%)
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View contents of zip files, without uncompressing –
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | $ zip -sf tutorial
Archive contains:
tutorial/
tutorial/host.conf
tutorial/hostname
tutorial/hosts.deny
tutorial/hosts
tutorial/hosts.allow
tutorial/auth_sa.py
Total 7 entries (2487 bytes)
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Unzip or decompress
To decompress a zipped file, use the unzip command –
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | $ unzip tutorial.zip
Archive: tutorial.zip
creating: tutorial/
inflating: tutorial/host.conf
extracting: tutorial/hostname
inflating: tutorial/hosts.deny
inflating: tutorial/hosts
inflating: tutorial/hosts.allow
inflating: tutorial/auth_sa.py
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Search and compress
You can also combine find and zip command to search for certain types of files and compress those files in one command –
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | $ find . -type f -name '*.conf' -print | zip confi-files -@
adding: host.conf (deflated 13%)
adding: colord.conf (deflated 50%)
adding: ntp.conf (deflated 56%)
$ zip -sf confi-files
Archive contains:
host.conf
colord.conf
ntp.conf
Total 3 entries (1858 bytes)
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References -
https://linux.die.net/man/1/zip
