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the fear of missing out a better compression
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how about .tar.zip or .tar.rar?
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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That's fine. I'm use to being unrepresented in the arj, lha, and uc2 crew
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?
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.tar.xz
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one of the cool things about tar is that it's hard link aware
What's wrong with .7z?
Nothing, but I've read people who act as if tar files are some sort of alien artifact ready to rip their faces off.
Good ol -xvjpf
I'm from tar.gz.gpg gang to keep away nasty storage providers
tar cvjf compressed-shit.tar.bz2 /path/to/uncompressed/shit/
Only way to fly.
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.txz, I'm too lazy to type the full name
.tar.zst forever
This guy tar balls
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.
I unironically used xz for a long time. It was just eazy and all around very good compress. A close second is 7zip because I used it on windows for years.
most of the things i want to send around my network in archives are already compressed binary files, so i just tar everything.
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