Oct 30, 2010 · 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?

May 9, 2010 · 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.

By the way, gzip generally have lower compression rations than rar and 7z (albeit it de/compresses much faster), and it can only compress single files - generally tarballs when archiving (such as …

The c option for gzip will tell gzip to decompress to the standard output stream. The - at the end of the tar command means “use standard input.” So coupled with the the -c in gzip, the pipe will then take …

Mar 29, 2011 · 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 …

Mar 3, 2017 · I'm decompressing a file with a .gzip extension and then re-compressing it using 7Zip. When re-compressed though it has a .gz extension. Are a .gz and .gzip extension the same thing?

May 15, 2018 · Rename the file to sample.file.gz and rerun gunzip on the new file. unknown suffix -- ignored Is telling you that it does not understand the .file suffix so it is ignoring the file. As the man …

Between xz, gzip, and bzip2, which compression algorithm gives the smallest file size and fastest speed when compressing fairly large tarballs?

Oct 3, 2012 · What is a nice command-line trick to tell if a .gz file is really gzipped, as opposed to being a non-Gzip file just named that way?

Aug 2, 2017 · If you gzip a file (on disk), checksum it, gunzip it, gzip it again, and checksum it again, you'll get matching checksums (or at least, I do). The timestamp is of the original file.