Using the zip command, you can supply a specific list of extensions to store without compression. That way you don't waste time (re-)compressing your media files, but you still get the benefits …

7-zip has an option to UNZIP every file into its own folder (*/), but lacks the context commands to do the opposite action you are looking for. That said, I remember doing this exact thing using …

Will compressing an already compressed file cause immediate problems, or potentially problems later on when I attempt to uncompress it? I read Can zipping a file break it?, but it does not …

I have all the command line utils installed, and need to split an existing .zip (or) new file(s) into (50MB) .zip segments in Terminal. i.e. Folder X = 900MB > Create self extracting .zip archive >

This is the internal zip packer from Total Commander: However I want to use my 7zip packer. When I select 5 files, I get 5 separate .zip archives for each selected file. How do I do that in …

I sometimes need to make changes to a .zip or .jar file, so I usually move the file to /tmp, extract all the files with unzip, edit a few files, and then re-zip up the files. This works, but it ca...

It appears that .zip will compress larger files faster. However, it yields one of the largest compression sizes. It also looks like he was using Windows utilities, but I'm betting OSX's …

Anytime I download a .zip file or create a compressed folder, my PC makes it a Winzip file, which is no good because I don't want to pay their fee to get the full version (the version I have was a ...

I did a few tests on different file types and sizes comparing the 7-Zip and WinRAR default settings on their normal compression and their best compression, and in a lot of cases WinRAR was …

I compressed the same data using Windows built-in zip mecanism, and from a Linux point of view, I cannot see any difference in the file type: $ file madeinlinux.zip : Zip archive data, at least …