Can I zip an entire folder using gzip? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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Web ResultMay 10, 2015 · 877. No. Unlike zip, gzip functions as a compression algorithm only. Because of various reasons some of which hearken back to the era of tape drives, Unix uses a program named tar to archive data, which can then be compressed with a compression program like gzip, bzip2, 7zip, etc. In order to "zip" a directory, …
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