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<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="ARCHIVE-FILES-ZIP" name="ARCHIVE-FILES-ZIP">15.4 <tt
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<p>Finally, there are two utilities that can be used on zip files. These are very common
in the Windows world, so Linux has programs to deal with them. The compression program is
called <tt class="COMMAND">zip</tt>(1), and the decompression program is called <tt
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<p>This will create the file <tt class="FILENAME">foo.zip</tt>, which will contain all
the files in the current directory. <tt class="COMMAND">zip</tt> will add the <tt
class="FILENAME">.zip</tt> extension automatically, so there's no need to include that in
the file name. You can also recurse through the current directory, zipping up any
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<p>Decompressing files is easy, as well.</p>

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<p>This will extract all the files in the file <tt class="FILENAME">foo.zip</tt>,
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<p>The <tt class="COMMAND">zip</tt> utilities have several advanced options for creating
self-extracting archives, leaving out files, controlling compressed file size, printing
out what will happen, and much more. See the man pages for <tt class="COMMAND">zip</tt>
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