added zip file

.github/workflows/mergeFiles.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Merge MD Files
       run: |
         # Define the order of markdown files to merge
-        files_to_merge=("index.md", "navigation.md", "files.md", "ssh.md", "scp.md", "sed.md", "grep.md", "awk.md", "searchingFiles.md", "netstat.md", "lsof.md", "curl.md", "wget.md", "dig.md", "redirection.md", "process_substitution.md")
+        files_to_merge=("index.md", "navigation.md", "files.md", "ssh.md", "zip.md", "scp.md", "sed.md", "grep.md", "awk.md", "searchingFiles.md", "netstat.md", "lsof.md", "curl.md", "wget.md", "dig.md", "redirection.md", "process_substitution.md")
         # remove existing contents readme
         echo '' > README.md
         # Merge files in the specified order

index.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 1. [Linux Navigation Byte](#linux-navigation-commands)
 2. [Files & Directories Byte](#files-and-directories)
 3. [SSH Byte](#ssh-command)
+3a. [Zip Byte](#zip-command)
 4. [SCP Byte](#scp-command)
 5. [Sed Byte](#sed-command)
 6. [Grep Byte](#grep-command)

zip.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+## ZIP Command
+> To make .zip from folders we use this utility. It does not preserve ownership information. To preserve it, we should use `tar` utility.
+```shell
+## SYNTAX
+## zip OPTIONS ARCHIVE_NAME FILES
+zip files.zip file1 file2
+
+# suppress the output
+zip -q files.zip file1 file2 file3
+
+# archive a directory
+zip -r files.zip filesDir/
+
+# add other files to the zip as well
+zip -r files.zip filesDir/ file1.txt ../shoaib/files.txt
+
+## By default compression method used is : deflate
+## SUPPORTED METHODS:
+## 1. deflate
+## 2. bzip2
+# if a file cannot be compress,it stored as is
+zip -r -Z bzip2 filesDir/
+
+# specify compression level from 0-9
+# default is 6 and 0 is no compression
+zip -9 -r hello.zip filesDir/
+```