The highly compatible zip, unzip and zipcloak commands on Linux can help you create encrypted zip files and extract their contents as needed.

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.

In this how-to, we’ll look at the zip command, a useful utility that enables us to specify lists of files, set a level of data compression and create compressed archives. Whilst you become ...

The Linux version of 7-Zip can perform all the same actions as the Windows version of 7-zip, but it’s only available as a command line utility for now.