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.

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?

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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?

The way i understand the use of tar + gzip is that tar is normally used to consolidate a grouping of files into a single file, then gzip is used to compress that file. I recently learned that tar ...

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 …

Jan 3, 2015 · According to the gzip man page, using the -N or --name option when using gunzip recovers the original file name. -N is the default when compressing (so gzip always saves the …