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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

  • much faster

  • proper unicode (and other encodings) support

  • automatic recursion (no extra flags needed)

  • can search inside compressed files/archives like gz/xz/zip (also see ripgrep-all) for even more archive support)

  • honors .gitignore and ignores binary/hidden files

probably a lot more things too

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