zip Command - Compress Files

The zip command is used to compress files and directories into a ZIP archive. It is commonly used for packaging and distributing files on Linux and other platforms.

Syntax

zip [options] archive.zip file1 file2 ...

Examples

zip files.zip file1.txt file2.txt

zip -r archive.zip folder/

zip -d files.zip file1.txt

Notes

• zip archives can be extracted with the unzip command.
• Use -r to include directories and their contents recursively.
• zip is widely supported across different operating systems.