If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

There are quite a few interesting things that you can do with "zip" commands other than compress and uncompress files. Here are some other zip options and how they can help. Some of us have been ...

When was the last time you had to create a zip file? Personally, I have to interact with those types of files all the time (either receiving or sending them to various clients, family, and friends).

Although the differences are sometimes made opaque in casual conversation, there is in fact a complete difference between archiving files and compressing them. Archiving means that you take 10 files ...

Data compression works so well that popular backup and networking tools have some built in. Linux offers more than a dozen compression tools to choose from, and most of them let you pick a compression ...

February 28, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google This is a good question, as it seems like every other file you download nowadays is in a different compression ...

I want users to go on my website chooses pictures that they like, and compress and dowlnload. However, I want to create a .zip(or other compress) file that can be understandable on Linux and ...

At some point in your Linux journey, you’ll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the command line. Jack Wallen shows you how. The Linux command line is an incredibly powerful tool.