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 Hive default); …

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?

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?

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 Googled, but found …

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 …

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 the directory has …

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?

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 would use zip and …