@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • edit-23 months agoMost many file types are just a renamed .zipmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down128
arrow-up198arrow-down1message-squareMost many file types are just a renamed .zip@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • edit-23 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareLostXORlinkfedilink16•3 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-square@pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink21•3 months agotar -xzvf filename With a bad pretend accent: Xtract Zee Vucking File
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:
tar -hOr is it
tar --help? Oh no…tar -cf stop-nuke.tar