How to Create a Password Protected ZIP File in Linux? Last Updated : 23 Feb, 2021 Summarize Comments Improve Suggest changes Share Like Article Like Report Linux provides Zip command to work with a file like compressing the file and decompressing with a password. It's not come with built-in you need to install from an external source. The Zip command has two different utility(zip and unzip). zip is used for compressing the file and unzip is used for decompressing the file. Installation Use this command in Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux mint. sudo apt install zip unzip For Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S zip unzip For Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS. sudo dnf install zip unzipUsage Zip the file with the following commands. zip -re OUTPUT_FILE.zip FOLDER While running this command it will ask the password for a zip file. Example: zip -re output_data.zip gfg Check your file(output_data.zip) is created with password protected. lsUnzip You can easily unzip the file with these commands. unzip YOUR_FILE.zip While running this command it will ask the password for a decompressing zip file. Example: unzip output_data.zipCreate a Password-Protected ZIP File in Linux Using GUI We can use our GUI window to create a zip file and unzip too. Here are the following steps: Step 1: Go to the file location and right-click on the file. Step 2: Then click on the compress option. Step 3: Then click on the other option and set your password and click on Create option. Your Password-Protected ZIP File is created. Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article How to Password Protect a Google Document K kumar_satyam Follow Improve Article Tags : Linux-Unix How To Similar Reads How to read password protected excel file in R ? In this article, we are going to see how to read password-protected Excel files in R programming language. File in use:Â file Method 1: Using excel.link Package. Here we will use excel.link package to read the file with a password. Installation: install.packages("excel.link") xl.read.file() function 2 min read How to Brute Force ZIP File Passwords in Python? In this article, we will see a Python program that will crack the zip file's password using the brute force method. The ZIP file format is a common archive and compression standard. It is used to compress files. Sometimes, compressed files are confidential and the owner doesn't want to give its acce 3 min read How to Password Protect a Google Document Google Docs is a widely used free word processor to create, edit, and share documents with multiple people. In Google Docs, the file gets automatically saved on Google Drive cloud storage. Google Docs also takes care of the person who wants to protect his sensitive or personal documents and wants to 6 min read How to Remove the Password from a Zip File? ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. By lossless compression, we mean that the compression algorithm allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data. So, a ZIP file is a single file containing one or more compressed files, offering an 2 min read Fcrackzip Tool - Crack a Zip File Password in Kali Linux The fcrackzip utility and wordlists are included by default in Kali to crack passwords for these compressed files. Because of their compact size and encryption algorithm, we frequently use zipped files. These zipped files have a password protection feature that ensures the files' confidentiality. Wh 3 min read How to Print a Password Protected PDF File with Google Drive? Printing a password-protected PDF file can be challenging, especially if you don't have the right tools. Google Drive offers a convenient solution for this problem, allowing you to access and print secured PDF files with ease. In this guide, we will walk you through the steps to print a password-pro 4 min read Like