Quick Answer: How Do I Compress a File in Ubuntu Using Terminal?
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How do I compress a file in Ubuntu terminal?

Zip a folder in Ubuntu Linux Using GUI

In here, select the files and folders. Now, right click and select Compress. You can do the same for a single file as well. Now you can create a compressed archive file in zip, tar xz or 7z format.

How do I compress a file in Terminal?

How to Zip a Folder Using Terminal or Command Line

  1. SSH into your website root via Terminal (on Mac) or your command line tool of choice.
  2. Navigate to the parent folder of the folder that you want to zip up using the “cd” command.
  3. Use the following command: zip -r mynewfilename.zip foldertozip/ or tar -pvczf BackUpDirectory.tar.gz /path/to/directory for gzip compression.
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