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).

The zip command lets you compress files to preserve them or back them up, and you can require a password to extract the contents of a zip file. Zipping files allows ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

7-Zip is a popular, powerful, and versatile file archive utility that you can use to compress or decompress files and folders. The free and open source software is something of a Swiss Army Knife ...

Have you ever used Secure Shell to access a remote machine, only to find yourself needing to download a file from a remote location? What do you do? Since you only have terminal window access to that ...

In the world of Linux, file compression is a routine yet critical task, serving the dual purpose of saving disk space and speeding up file transfers. With several compression tools at your disposal, ...

An official version of the popular 7-zip archiving program has been released for Linux for the first time. Linux already had support for the 7-zip archive file format through a POSIX port called p7zip ...