How to zip or compress a folder or directory in Linux
In Linux or similar Operating Systems, zip utility is used to package and compress (archive) files.
Let us get straight to action, we have a folder to compress with zip tool –
12345678910111213141516 daniel@hidmo:/tmp/tutorial$ tree ..??? zip-tutorial ??? chapter-1 ? ??? content ??? chapter-2 ? ??? readme ??? zip.txt daniel@hidmo:/tmp/tutorial$ zip -r tutorial.zip zip-tutorial/ adding: zip-tutorial/ (stored 0%) adding: zip-tutorial/zip.txt (deflated 55%) adding: zip-tutorial/chapter-2/ (stored 0%) adding: zip-tutorial/chapter-2/readme (deflated 55%) adding: zip-tutorial/chapter-1/ (stored 0%) adding: zip-tutorial/chapter-1/content (deflated 57%)
Basically we use “zip -r DESTINATION-FILE.ZIP FOLDER-TO-COMPRESS” to compress directory. Or in short “zip -r DESTINATION-FILE DIRECTORY-TO-COMPRESS“, we can skip the .zip extension.
1234567 daniel@hidmo:/tmp/tutorial$ zip -r tutorial zip-tutorial/updating: zip-tutorial/ (stored 0%) adding: zip-tutorial/zip.txt (deflated 55%) adding: zip-tutorial/chapter-2/ (stored 0%) adding: zip-tutorial/chapter-2/readme (deflated 55%) adding: zip-tutorial/chapter-1/ (stored 0%) adding: zip-tutorial/chapter-1/content (deflated 57%)
To view the contents of the compressed folder without uncompressing it –
123456789101112 daniel@hidmo:/tmp/tutorial$ unzip -l tutorial.zip Archive: tutorial.zip Length Date Time Name--------- ---------- ----- ---- 0 2019-10-07 21:45 zip-tutorial/ 1202 2019-10-07 21:45 zip-tutorial/zip.txt 0 2019-10-07 21:45 zip-tutorial/chapter-2/ 1202 2019-10-07 21:45 zip-tutorial/chapter-2/readme 0 2019-10-07 21:44 zip-tutorial/chapter-1/ 722 2019-10-07 21:44 zip-tutorial/chapter-1/content--------- ------- 3126 6 files
References –
https://linux.die.net/man/1/zip
https://superuser.com/questions/216617/view-list-of-files-in-zip-archive-on-linux
