Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoMost many file types are just a renamed .zipmessage-squaremessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down127
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minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoAKA “Why zip doesn’t compress things much any more”.
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…
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoZipping a file repeatedly typically doesn’t reduce the size further after the first time.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoYeah duoy you [realistically] can’t compress compressed data…
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoMy 1.5gb log folders disagrees. But I never tried opening a .txt in 7-zip.
AKA “Why zip doesn’t compress things much any more”.
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
?
Zipping a file repeatedly typically doesn’t reduce the size further after the first time.
Yeah duoy you [realistically] can’t compress compressed data…
My 1.5gb log folders disagrees. But I never tried opening a .txt in 7-zip.