Command to Compress and Password Protect

Lately I’ve been needing to send some folks password protected zip files. Below is a short and basic snippet that you can use to run in your terminal.

zip -er newFOLDER oldFolder

Once your run the above snippet, enter a password.

oldFolder is the folder with your contents

newFOLDER is the name of the outputed zip file of this command

The output will be newFOLDER.zip