Jack Wallen walks you through the process of zipping and unzipping files in Linux from both the command line and the GUI.

Did you know that Linux makes it easy to create and use hidden files, which means you can easily tuck important documents away from plain sight? Here's how to manage those files.

We use ‘mkdir’ (make directory) command to create new directories. If you simply run the mkdir command followed by the name of the new directory, the folder will be created in the current ...

At some point in your Linux journey, you'll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the command line. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Linux/Mac/Cygwin: Creating folders from the terminal and then switching to them can be tedious, especially when the folder names have spaces, but the One Thing Well weblog writes up a simple trick ...

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...