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 …

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.

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

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?

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 …

gzip -cvr --no-name /path-to-directory/new > new.gz I have copied this >700MB to another location (on a different server) and would now like to unpack it. So, on the new server I go to …

Feb 10, 2025 · gzip_static always; gzip_proxied any; gunzip on; which works for html/css/js files but returns 404 pages when for example a user resquest to download a .tar file and only the …

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 …