Nothing important here, move to Zipping part.

It's so weird that nobody on internet talks about how to zip and unzip on linux.

I happened to find some articles about this topic but I only got the ones that talk about tar or gz file types.

ChatGPT has destroyed people's mind and I was frustrated just like you. So, here is a quick tutorial of zipping and unzipping.

Zipping:

So let's say you have a zipped file with name: 

alice.zip

How do you unzip this file? Here's the command:

zip -r alice.zip alice

Let me explain what's happening in the above command:

• zip : tool name
• -r : flag to make it recursively
• alice.zip : Final result zip file that you need
• alice : folder to zip

Unzipping:

Now about Unzipping:

unzip alice.zip -d bob

About this command:

• unzip : tool name
• alice.zip : Zipped file that you want to unzip
• -d : flag to to specify the directory of extraction
• bob : folder to put the contents of the zipped file

The main thing here is that the directory doesn't have to exist before you run unzip command.

I hope it helped you.

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