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I have downloaded some .zip files. I wish to decompress them (I have unzip), modify them, and compress them again (into separate compressed files, one decompressed file per compressed file). I have no plan to use the files on another machine. I'm trying to figure out whether to apt-get install zip or to gzip them. (I have gzip.) What are the advantages of each — in general and specifically in my case?


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In general the main advantage of zip over gzip is that it's more widespread in the Windows community.



In your case it might be more or less equivalent.



M.


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