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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by Krafting@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 9 points 3 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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[–] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

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

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 11 points 3 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?

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I download and then tar. Curl pipes are scary

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

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

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 months ago

.tar.xz

☠️

[–] hasecilu@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

I'm a 7z person.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Good ol -xvjpf

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

Only way to fly.

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[–] gianni@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

.tar.zst forever

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

This guy tar balls

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with .7z?

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 8 points 3 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.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 7 points 3 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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