zip

File Management

Package and compress files

Options & Flags

Available options for this command

-r

Recursively include directories

-e

Encrypt archive with password

-9

Maximum compression

Examples

Common usage examples

Create a zip archive

zip archive.zip file.txt

Zip a directory recursively

zip -r archive.zip directory/

Extract zip archive

unzip archive.zip

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