How to compress files and folders on Lubuntu

There are so many compression format (archive format) available on lubuntu/ubuntu (and linux in general), such as tar, tar.gz, bz2, zip, 7z, lzma, etc, in this article i'm going to show you how to compress files and folders on lubuntu.

First of all, why you need to compress files? because when you compress files you can get smaller file size, plus if you put it on a folder, you can have many files inside one compressed file, that's very important if you want to send those files to someone else.

Alright, let's get started, to compress files or folders on lubuntu is actually very easy to do, we can do it using graphical interface (GUI), by simply right click on the file/folder that you want and then select the 'Compress...' option.

Noticed, you got so many choice for compression format, here's the list:

1. 7z
2. ar
3. bz2
4. cbz
5. cpio
6. ear
7. gz
8. iso
9. jar
10. lzma
11. tar
12. tar.Z
13. tar.bz2
14. tar.gz
15. tar.lz
16. tar.lzma
17. tar.lzo
18. tar.xz
19. .war
20. .xz
21. .zip

Choose the one that you like and then hit the 'Create' button to start the compression, some format such as zip, war, ear, and cbz have ability to put password, so you can put password if you want.

Of course, if you prefer to do it using command line, you can do that also, well maybe not for all format, but definitely you can do that.

You can read my other articles if you want to compress files/folders using command line:

http://lubuntuhowto.blogspot.co.id/2015/01/how-to-zip-and-unzip-on-lubuntu.html

http://lubuntuhowto.blogspot.co.id/2015/03/how-to-create-and-extract-tar-targz-tarbz2-files-on-lubuntu.html