Comments on: How to Create a Password Protected ZIP File in Linux

By: gvisoc

gvisoc — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 23:39:27 +0000

The example:

# zip -e ccat-command.zip ccat-1.1.0/

Does not work on a folder, as it only compresses the folder and not its content. Indeed, in the output of the example we can get a hint of this fact based on the “(stored 0%)”, which means that the archive is compressed down to 0%, i.e., no actual content.

To compress a folder and its content, encrypted, we need to add -r:

# zip -e -r ccat-command.zip ccat-1.1.0/
or 
# zip -er ccat-command.zip ccat-1.1.0/

will work. We will notice it because we get a comprehensive output and a statement of how much deflation applied to each and every file.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 08:02:58 +0000

In reply to Jirka.

@Jirka,

Thanks for sharing the tip, hope it will help other Linux users…

By: Jirka

Jirka — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:07:25 +0000

This worked by me in Ubuntu: zip --encrypt 2022-12-02_backup.zip -r folder_to_backup.

Be good!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 23:49:15 +0000

It is not worked! work this: zip -P asdasdas archive.zip asdasdas.

By: doug

doug — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:55:32 +0000

Like others have said, needs to be recursive or a wildcard in the example you give.