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Zip and unzip in Linux

 Zip and unzip in Linux

We can use the commands to zip and unzip the files or folders in Linux. Zip and unzip and such useful commands.

The usage of the commands are described below.

Zipping

Create a zip file for a single file

zip targetZipFilename.zip filetoZip.txt

Add multiple files to the new zipfile

zip targetZipFilename.zip filetoZip-1.txt filetoZip-2.txt

Note : We can use wildcards for the filenames as needed.

Add a file to existing zip file 

zip -u existingZipFilename.zip filetoZip.txt

Remove  single file from a zip file

zip -d existingZipFilename.zip filetoRemoveFromZip.txt

Zip directories and the contents

zip -r ZipFilename.zip ./FolderInPWDToZip

Note : -r is for recursive file selection.

To zip everything in the present working directory

zip -r ZipFilename.zip ./*

Unzipping 

The command without any arguments will unzip the contents to present folder. No additional folders will be created on extraction.

Basic unzip 

unzip zippedFile.zip

Extract to a specified folder 

unzip zippedFile.zip -d /targetFolder

Note : create the folder if the target folder does not exist.

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