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    the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
    submitted 5 months ago by Krafting to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] eager_eagle 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

    I use the command line every day, but can't be bothered with all the compression options of tar and company.

    zip -r thing.zip things/ and unzip thing.zip are temptingly more straightforward.

    Need more compression? zip -r -9 thing.zip things/. Need a faster option? Use a smaller digit.

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    how about .tar.zip or .tar.rar?

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

    Kind of redundant. Both .zip and .rar store an index of files within the archive and are a bit 'inside-out' when it comes what we get from tar.gz.

    That is, ZIP is pretty close to what you'd get if you first gzipped all your files and then put them into a .tar.

    RAR does a little more (if I remember correctly), such as generating a dictionary of common redundancies between files and then uses that knowledge to compress the files individually, but better. Something akin to a .tar file is still the result though.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

    That's fine. I'm use to being unrepresented in the arj, lha, and uc2 crew

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    If you download and extract the tarball as two separate steps instead of piping curl directly into tar xz (for gzip) / tar xj (for bz2) / tar xJ (for xz), are you even a Linux user?

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I download and then tar. Curl pipes are scary

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

    .tar.xz

    ☠️

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

    one of the cool things about tar is that it's hard link aware

    [–] robolemmy 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    tar cvjf compressed-shit.tar.bz2 /path/to/uncompressed/shit/

    Only way to fly.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

    Good ol -xvjpf

    [–] cley_faye 9 points 5 months ago

    .txz, I'm too lazy to type the full name

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

    I'm from tar.gz.gpg gang to keep away nasty storage providers

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

    I'm a 7z person.

    [–] TimeNaan 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    What's wrong with .7z?

    [–] dustyData 8 points 5 months ago

    Nothing, but I've read people who act as if tar files are some sort of alien artifact ready to rip their faces off.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

    .tar.zst forever

    [–] Shardikprime 8 points 5 months ago

    This guy tar balls

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

    Bzip2 compression is often surprisingly good with text files, especially log files. It seems to "see" redundancies there - and logs often have a lot of it - far better than gzip and sometimes even lzma.

    Anyway, if I saw a bunch of tar.bz2 files, that's what I'd expect to find in them.

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