Quickly Zip And Unzip Files Using Linux Mint/Ubuntu Terminal

Here is how to quickly zip and unzip files using Linux Mint/Ubuntu terminal :

1. Install zip and unzip if not present by typing :

2. Once installed, to compress files or folders in .zip format, type :

This will put all the files from current directory into the archive named docs as specified and saved as docs.zip.

To compress only a single specific file from current directory :

2. To unzip the files into a target directory :

Note that specifying just name of archive will unzip it’s contents into the current directory.

To quickly list what files are present in the zip archive :

To find out other cool features, as always use man command :

Happy compressing!