Password protected zip through terminal

Written by Bill EricksonPublished on December 30, 2024

If you want to zip the “foobar” directory into “foobar.zip”, use this:

zip -er foobar.zip foobar

It will then ask you to enter password, then verify password.

Bill Erickson is the co-founder and lead developer at CultivateWP, a WordPress agency focusing on high performance sites for web publishers.

I build custom WordPress websites that look great and are easy to manage.