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author: Joao Tomazoni
title: zip
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<code>zip</code> is the command to package and compress files together as .zip extension.
Simply type zip + name of the zip file + name of the files to be compressed as .zip.

<pre>
zip -r [target.zip] [source1] [source2]
</pre>

Say you want to compress a file named test.txt and an image named image.png together
in one zip file named test.zip. This is what it should look like:

<pre>
zip -r test.zip text.txt image.png
</pre>

In this case it should return a test.zip file in your desktop with a directory inside
containing the two files together.<br><br>

<h3>Flags</h3>

<ul>
    <li><b>-e</b>: create zip files that require a password in order to be uncompressed.
<pre>
zip -e test.zip text.txt image.png
    Enter password: (password required to unzip the file)
</pre>
    </li>
    <li><b>-u</b>: update zip files and add new files inside the current zip file.
<pre>
zip -u test.zip newtext.txt
</pre>
        The newtext.txt file will be added to the current test.zip file.
    </li>
    <li><b>-d</b>: remove files inside the current zip file.
<pre>
zip -d test.zip newtext.txt
</pre>
        The newtext.txt file will be removed from the current test.zip file.
    </li>
</ul>