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.

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 …

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?

Jul 12, 2010 · 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 …

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: 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?

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 …