Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoMost many file types are just a renamed .zipmessage-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down128
arrow-up196arrow-down1message-squareMost many file types are just a renamed .zipInterstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoI see images, audio, or video files distributed in zips far too often. You’re getting maybe a percent of compression if you’re lucky; just distribute the raw files or use a non-compressed bundle format like tar.
minus-squarepixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up21·2 months agotar -xzvf filename With a bad pretend accent: Xtract Zee Vucking File
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 months agoThe cheeky option: tar -h Or is it tar --help? Oh no…
I see images, audio, or video files distributed in zips far too often. You’re getting maybe a percent of compression if you’re lucky; just distribute the raw files or use a non-compressed bundle format like tar.
But then,
tar -xzvf filename
With a bad pretend accent:
Xtract
Zee
Vucking
File
The cheeky option:
Or is it
tar --help? Oh no…tar -cf stop-nuke.tar