Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-28 hours agoMost many file types are just a renamed .zipmessage-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down119
arrow-up162arrow-down1message-squareMost many file types are just a renamed .zipInterstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-28 hours agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 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-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 hour agoThe cheeky option: tar -h Or is it tar --help? Oh no…
minus-squarepixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 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:
Or is it
tar --help
? Oh no…tar -cf stop-nuke.tar
tar -xzvf filename
With a bad pretend accent:
Xtract
Zee
Vucking
File