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minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down1·edit-221 hours agoAKA “Why zip doesn’t compress things much any more”.
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up14·21 hours 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-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up18·17 hours agoThe cheeky option: tar -h Or is it tar --help? Oh no…
minus-squarepixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up18·19 hours agotar -xzvf filename With a bad pretend accent: Xtract Zee Vucking File
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·23 hours agoZipping a file repeatedly typically doesn’t reduce the size further after the first time.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·23 hours agoYeah duoy you [realistically] can’t compress compressed data…
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,
The cheeky option:
Or is it
tar --help
? Oh no…tar -xzvf filename
With a bad pretend accent:
Xtract
Zee
Vucking
File
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…