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.

Together, we're going to zip and unzip a file on Linux. I'll show you first how to do it from the command line and then using the GNOME File Manager GUI.

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 ...

7-Zip for 32-bit Linux x86 7-Zip for 32-bit Linux armhf This first version of 7-Zip for Linux is released as a console application and has similar, but not identical, command-line arguments as p7zip.

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.

But the Linux app lacks any true graphical user interface or GUI as a front end. That leaves 7-Zip and p7Zip technology out of reach for many Linux users. The command-line-only interface is too ...