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gzipped files are awesome! they are the best compressed files I know, .rar and .zip are nowhere near , if you compare the compression ratios...
Generally I use Windows, does anyone know how can I gzip in Windows?? I have severe limits at the attachment sizes here, so anything that compresses more, is better.
Lazer
Posted 2009-09-14T16:58:39.560
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Matthew Talbert
Posted 2009-09-14T16:58:39.560
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@Powerlord That's cool, really, but WHY are you parsing ls directly? It does work most of the time, but you should really be using something like find, shouldn't you? – Wyatt8740 – 2016-07-07T23:26:59.160
@Wyatt8740 It was a flat directory structure. Besides, ls -1 doesn't need parsing, you can pass it directly to xargs. – Powerlord – 2016-07-08T06:37:34.233
@Powerlord so ls -1 can handle exotic stuff like newlines in filenames? – Wyatt8740 – 2016-07-10T18:26:17.520
13+1, but 7zip has a command line interface too. I use it for automated backups. – None – 2009-09-14T17:06:05.013
originally used WinRar, but switched to 7zip when I noticed it had shell integration as well. I also use a combinations of bash, nice, ls, xargs, and 7zip to uncompress bzip2 files and recompress them into 7z files on a linux web server (for Team Fortress 2 maps). – Powerlord – 2009-09-14T17:56:43.063
By the way, gzip generally have lower compression rations than
rarand7z(albeit it de/compresses much faster), and it can only compress single files - generally tarballs when archiving (such asmyfolder.tar.gzand it's generally suited for servers where you don't want to spend even a tiny bit of extra CPU if not necessary. For archiving I recommend 7z, it has a very good LZMA algorithm. And it's free/open source. – Camilo Martin – 2012-09-26T12:16:31.140