@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • edit-28 hours agoMost many file types are just a renamed .zipmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down119
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minus-squareLostXORlinkfedilink6•5 hours 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.zonelinkfedilink7•2 hours 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,
The cheeky option:
tar -h
Or is it
tar --help
? Oh no…tar -cf stop-nuke.tar
tar -xzvf filename
With a bad pretend accent:
Xtract
Zee
Vucking
File