tar just wraps, doesn't compress. so more accurate would be the pillows in a looser bag that doesn't squish them even a little :)
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Cuts them into nice stripes so they fit onto a tape spindle though.
yourfiles.tar.xz
Looks more like a one-way hash to me.
This is a one-way hash.
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Spotted the Linux user
You got me!
Reminds me of the "grandma .zip" meme
Yay this is now a URL. If your intention was not to post a URL to some random website not loading anything but javadscript, put a "" before the link I guess
Test "example/.com"
Fuck Google
Oops, yeah that was my intention lol. I'll put some invisible unicode character after the dot, maybe that would do it.
Naw thats grandma.mp3 or grandma.jpg because thats clearly lossy compression not lossless.
Why use this over .7z? I'm legit curious.
Why use this over .xz? I'm legit curious.
XZ is a single file container, whereas 7Z is a full fledged complete compressor which can handle multiple files. I see no reason to prefer TAR+XZ.
I believe it's because tar.gz is more ubiquitous across unix distributions. I've honestly never seen a 7zip file on a unix system.
It's likely a combination of tradition/habit and compatibility. Tar.gz is widely supported on *nix systems, and while 7z is highly efficient, its not as widely supported and may need additional libraries or software to work on some systems,/distros
I do NOT understand how zip is still the default. I use .tgz wherever I can.
Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that's what you're using.
Lzo or lzma is best for compression. Also depends on the compression rate. KDE Ark is awesome
Nono, z-standard is where it's at
No, ZST is pretty bad compared to LZMA2, BSC or PAQ*. ZST is middle of the pack between LZ4 and LZMA2, and is only good for transit, not archival.
Compatibility with literally anything under the sun that can decompress a compressed file.
But isn't that's given with tgz too?
Except of course Windows iirc
Yep, but Windows is still the majority right now... And i'm sure there are a lot of people out there that don't have 7zip installed (why doesn't MS include their own implementation already ?)
And this is the problem imo. If you NEVER change a thing you will never improve
Good luck teaching that to people who only use a computer to browse Facebook.
Not saying it's impossible, but it takes time
Do these even need zips?
They do but its useless. Winrar can handle .tar.* too
Windows, Android, iOS do not open them by default.
ZIP files are easier to repair and recover files from, and instead of complicating things with 2 containers, it has a table list of files, plus is the easiest to drag drop files into. 7z is a lot better to use than TAR + *z or whatever else. RAR if you want recovery records.
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