Linux 101: How to create a zip file in Linux Jack Wallen walks you through the process of zipping and unzipping files in Linux from both the command line and the GUI.

Jack Wallen offers up a Linux desktop tip that can help make just about any Linux workflow considerably easier.

Compressing files and storing them in a ZIP archive is very useful when you want to save space or send a collection of files as a single item. Let’s learn how to create an archive from the ...

Here are a few common use cases: Creating a zip archive: To compress multiple files into a single zip file, simply list the files you want to compress after the name of the zip file. For example: zip ...

To create a shell script using the default text editor, just follow the steps given below. Step 1: Create a text file having a “.sh” extension. Then type a simple script. Step 2: Now don’t change the ...

Or maybe you want to make it easier for you to point a web browser to an internal site or service. Instead of typing 192.168.1.11, you could type the hostname you’ve mapped in /etc/hosts.