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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@[email protected]linkfedilink21•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