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the fear of missing out a better compression(lemmy.world)

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oleorun@real.lemmy.fan
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Oblig. XKCD:

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marcos@lemmy.world
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That’s yet another great joke that GNU ruined.

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SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works
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tar -h

Edit: wtf… It’s actually tar -?. I’m so disappointed

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oleorun@real.lemmy.fan
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boom

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macniel@feddit.de
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tar eXtactZheVeckingFile

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zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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You don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.

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jj4211@lemmy.world
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You don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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.tar.xz

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Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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Yeah, it’s similar enough to tar.gz to always confuse me.

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palordrolap@kbin.run
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wait until you learn about .tar.lz

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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Good for image backups, after zeroing empty space.

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stoy@lemmy.zip
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xz is quite slow though

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pelya@lemmy.world
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tar c file | pxz > file.tar.xz

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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There’s several levels you can use to trade off additional space for requiring more processing power. That being said, I hate xz and it still feels slow AF every time I use it.

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TipRing@lemmy.world
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It starting 0.5 seconds slower than usual saved us all a bit of a headache as it turns out.

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uis@lemm.ee
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Same algo as in 7z

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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pixz is in “extra” repo in arch. Same as pigz.

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macniel@feddit.de
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how about .tar.zip or .tar.rar?

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EddyBot@discuss.tchncs.de
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youRFate@feddit.de
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Right, I usually do that or lz4.

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/home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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Where .7z at

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TaintPuncher@lemmy.ml
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.7z gang, represent

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BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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Small dick package kings/queens rise up.

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youRFate@feddit.de
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On windows.

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u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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7z is available for Linux as well (CLI only)

It is open-source too.

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youRFate@feddit.de
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I know, but I’d say ppl on Linux tend to not use it.

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