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- What can be used to gzip in Windows? - Super User
Compression ratio is not the main rationale for gzip, the main advantages are: 1 it is the standard of the internet, standard for digital_preservation and for many serious systems (e g Apache Hive default); 2 it can operate in pipes, in stream mode, with no disk-usage 3 it is free, transparent, it is not a black-box, no risk of Trojans, etc 4 the compression ratios and CPU usage are
- How to password protect gzip files on the command line?
I want to create some tar gz (and possibly tar bz2) files, using the tar command on Ubuntu 10 04 I want to password protect the file What is the command to do this (I have Googled, but found no
- What is the maximum compression ratio of gzip? - Super User
And 42 zip, besides not being gzip, requires recursive decompression, which is not a fair comparison The compression ratio of the first layer is still within normal parameters
- compression - Pros and cons of bzip vs gzip? - Super User
I've known gzip for years, recently I saw bzip being used at work Are they basically equivalent, or are there significant pros and cons to one of them over the other?
- Unexpected end of file. Gzip compressed file - Super User
gzip: the_name_of_the_file gz: unexpected end of file The same problem happens when I try to extract the file using the GUI tool in Ubuntu or MacOSX, Any ideas?
- How to gzip multiple files into one gz file? - Super User
You'll want to use tar, like so: tar -czvf file tar gz cvd* txt tar puts the files together, while gzip then performs the compression Quoth the gzip manpage: If you wish to create a single archive file with multiple members so that members can later be extracted independently, use an archiver such as tar or zip GNU tar supports the -z option to invoke gzip transparently gzip is designed as
- When using gzip --decompress, the result is gzip: MYFILE. zip . . .
You may be using the wrong tool gzip is file compressor decompressor for files that generally have the file extension gz and cannot extract files from a file like colorbox zip On linux you would use zip and unzip to add and extract files in a zip file Maybe gnuwin32 has the same zip unzip programs?
- How to specify level of compression when using tar -zcvf?
The -9 in the gzip command line tells gzip to use the maximum possible compression level (default is -6) Edit: Fixed pipe command line based on @depesz comment
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