If you use Gnome, just select some files or folders, and right-click,
choose "compress".  Choose your format, 7z, zip, etc etc.  You didn't
specify your desktop environment so I hope this is helpful.

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking to get a job and one of the things they want is for us to be
> able to zip files before we send them. Now there is tar and all of those
> zip abilities but there windows centric so I zeed a windows zip thing. Is
> there a linux utility to do this  or else what do you think I can do? I'll
> be compressing photos (if it makes a difference).
> After a little looking into this myself I found a discussion which says
> merely use 'zip -k'. Is there a better way to do this?
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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