Zip (command)

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• zip squash.zip file1

• zip -r -0 -e encrypted_file.zip /path/to/files

zip -T file_to_verify.zip
test of file_to_verify.zip OK

zip -T file_to_verify.zip

zip warning: missing end signature--probably not a zip file (did you zip warning: remember to use binary mode when you transferred it?) zip warning: (if you are trying to read a damaged archive try -F)

zip error: Zip file structure invalid (file_to_verify.zip)

Related terms

• unzip

See also

• Data compression, decompression: gzip (DEFLATE), bzip2 (BWT), zcat (cat), xz (LZMA), LZMA2, 7-Zip (7z), xzcat, LZ4, tar, zstd, unzip, Yann Collet, Igor Pavlov, PAQ, zip, gunzip, Brotli