Hello guys,
I'm really novice to linux: How would i zip a file on Kali Linux OS, I need to transfer a whole whack of files via google drive.?
p.s if you could also explain getting Kali Linux (virtualbox) to recognize a usb that would be awesome.
gzip from the command line or tar if thats not included.
I have never used Kali Linux before so I am unaware of what GUI tools are available for the task but you can use the following commands outlined below in a terminal session.
If you want to create a .zip file you could use the zip command such as zip archive.zip file1 file2 file3 and use unzip archive.zip to unzip the archive.
You could also use the tar command to create a tarball with: tar -zcvf archive.tgz file and unzip it with tar -zxvf archive.tgz.
The tarball is usually better if you plan on unzipping them on your system for later use as it keeps the file permissions intact.
Also this question on the U&L StackExchange site is a good resource about zipping/unzipping on Unix/Linux systems: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6596/how-do-i-zip-unzip-on-the-unix-command-line