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Where’s .7z people?
Obligatory shilling for unar, I love that little fucker so much
- Single command to handle uncompressing nearly all formats.
- No obscure flags to remember, just
unar <yourfile>
- Makes sure output is always contained in a directory
- Correctly handles weird japanese zip files with SHIFT-JIS filename encoding, even when standard
unzip
doesn’t
gonna start lovingly referring to good software tools as “little fuckers”
Happy cake day!
cool people use zst
Where .7z at
.7z gang, represent
Small
dickpackage kings/queens rise up.
ZSTD FTW
Oblig. XKCD:
tar -h
Edit: wtf… It’s actually
tar -?
. I’m so disappointedboom
Me removing the plastic case of a 2.5’ sata ssd to make it physically smaller
That’s a big drive.
Can someone explain why MacOS always seems to create _MACOSX folders in zips that we Linux/Windows users always delete anyway?
Window adds desktop.ini randomly too
Linux adds .demon_portal files all over my computer too.
That’s not Linux doing that. It’s the demons in your hardware trying to escape. They normally don’t cause too many issues luckily, but if you don’t close the portals occasionally they can take over your system.
When I’m feeling cool and downloading a
*.tar*
file, I’llwget
to stdout, and tar from stdin. Archive gets extracted on the fly.I have (successfully!) written an
.iso
to CD this way, too (pipe wget to cdrecord). Fun stuff.Something like
wget avc.com | tar xvf
?Almost, I think.
wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
I mean xz/7z has kind of been the way for at least a decade now
Well, tar.zstd is starting to be the thing now.
First bundling everything in a tar file just to compress the thing in an individual step is kinda stupid, though. Everything takes much longer because of that. If you don’t need to preserve POSIX permissions, tar is pointless anyway.
Slower, yes. More compression, yes. Stupid, no. tar serves a purpose beyond persevering permissions.