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How do I maintain integrity on zip and unzip?
I'm taking a dd of a drive and trying to share it with a friend. It's rather big after dd (~8gb). When I tar -czvf my-image.img I can get it down to ~1.5gb. However, if I try to test unzip it, I see ...
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how to send the decompressed output of archives to standard output?
When you decompress a gzip archive with gunzip without any arguments, the archive disappears, and you're left with the decompressed file in its place.
However, if you use the -c option, the archive ...
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While trying to see the content of a zipped file, I only get information about the zipping process
In Ubuntu, installed on Windows Subsystem for Linux, I want to see the content of a zip file, using gzip --list.
I expected to see a list of included files like this:
FileName ratio
File1 ...
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Not enough disk space to unzip 50 GB file on Ubuntu 16.04: Can I extract and reduce zip file size at the same time?
I have a 50 GB zip file, which contains roughly 50.000 jpg images. The jpgs are, unzipped, around 55 GB. I am on Ubuntu 16.04.
But I only have 70 GB disk size on that system. So I get a disk error in ...
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view zip file content in tree command style [duplicate]
I am seeing the zip file content using
unzip -l files.zip | less
but it outputs in ls style , is it possible to to display output in tree command style
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How to compress a large file to many smaller zip files with defined size?
I have a very large file, e.g. 100GB, and I want to compress it to many smaller zip file, with each file cannot larger than 1GB, what would be the most suitable commands to do it?
remark: I want to ...
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Search zipped *and* non-zipped files in one hit
I have a folder with a mix of zipped and unzipped log files which i want to search.
I can search the non-zipped with
grep -r "my-search-string" /path/to/folder
and search the zipped files with
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How to extract such a compressed file?
I have been asked to extract a ZIP file having in it 3 tar files and each tar file contains around 3000 gz files.
I had to extract the main ZIP file first then extract the tar files second then ...
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What is the equivalent unix command to a Mac OSX "Compress" menu action?
When I right-click a file in Mac OSX and select "Compress 'File Name'", what is the equivalent bash or terminal command to get the same result?
Is it just gzip -9 /path/to/filename?
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Is there a command to determine the compression ratio of a tar.bz2 file?
I have a file.tar.bz2 that's about 50GB and would like to extract it however I don't know how much space I will need. Is there a command to print the compression ratio of the tar.bz2 file?
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General Compressibility Of Various File Formats [closed]
Has anyone come across list of which file formats generally compress well (in general algorithms)?
Generally, text files .txt compress well, and media-files (.mp3, .avi, etc) do not compress well.
I'...
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Is it possible to recover partial compressed files?
Of the most popular compression methods (7z, RAR, Zip, GZip) is there any of them that allows to retrieve the uncompressed data from a partial file?
Imagine there is only one compressed file, and it ...
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Looking for a gtk equivalent of ark
Does there exist a GTK equivalent (or improvement) of the Linux archiving tool known as Ark? If so, where might it be found; and if not, how well-received might be a new project which acts as a front-...
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Zip/gzip compression ratio much less in Linux than in Windows
I have a bunch of very huge files located on a Linux machine that I would like to compress and save some space. I have tried using the tar/gzip combination and I have noticed that the compression ...
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Which archiving method is better for compressing text files on Linux?
In my application I need do compress of logs that are text files.
Seems that bzip2 and gzip have the same compression ratio.
Is that correct?
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