Jack Wallen walks you through the process of zipping and unzipping files in Linux from both the command line and the GUI.

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.

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.