How To Zip And Unzip On Ubuntu Terminal
Well if you are using Desktop, it is easier to do zipping and unzipping an archived files, but if you are doing on server that running Ubuntu, or any other Linux distribution, here's a simple and quick way for you to do basic simple file management on your server.
1. Firstly, you must have an installed zip program ready for your terminal, just type zip to check if it's exists, or you can just run this command, it will check if a zip already on your machine or not, if it is not then it will installing it for you.
sudo apt install zip unzip
2. Zip files and folder on Ubuntu, you can run this commands
sudo zip -r your_zip_name.zip directory_of_your_files
3. To unzip a zip file, you can using this commands
sudo unzip -d your_zip_name.zip directory_destination
That's so easy right, you can do that over and over to make you familiar with those commands, if you somehow forget, you can just bookmark this blog page and comeback whenever you forget.