Obviously, we’d all love to have everything for free, but it’s just not realistic. And $29 a pop isn’t that bad when you consider the alternative is losing access to all of those files forever. I just try not to use my .rar files too much, because it does add up.
I have no clue why my computer is inefficient with 7z, but I did my own benchmarking and realized the compressing and uncompressing speeds between 7z and rar were night and day. Ie. To extract 4gb, for winrar it took around 6 seconds. For 7z, it was around 30.
Yup, but I prefer to remember and type them in case I need to work with unnamed (streams)/custom named files or want to mess with people that only go by filename instead of file
Obviously, we’d all love to have everything for free, but it’s just not realistic. And $29 a pop isn’t that bad when you consider the alternative is losing access to all of those files forever. I just try not to use my .rar files too much, because it does add up.
.7z enters the room
I have no clue why my computer is inefficient with 7z, but I did my own benchmarking and realized the compressing and uncompressing speeds between 7z and rar were night and day. Ie. To extract 4gb, for winrar it took around 6 seconds. For 7z, it was around 30.
tar cJf
tar xJf
oh yeah? do a
.7znow 😏e: ah, you created the tar first i see now. i bet you know how to decompress a .tar.gz by memory every time
Well … iirc passing through gzip is z. So it would be
tar xzf
extract, gzip, file
i believe it can even figure out the compression on its own (via filename?) so all you need is “tar xf”
Yup, but I prefer to remember and type them in case I need to work with unnamed (streams)/custom named files or want to mess with people that only go by filename instead of
fileBut I am le tired…
Ok, well, then have a
sleep 10first. But then extract ze files!bsdtar xf(from nixpkgs#libarchive) and it’ll figure it out.I get the best results with .tar.zst (zstd)