sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoHow to write a 'tar' commandlemmy.sdf.orgimagemessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up1784arrow-down115
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minus-squaresonnenzeit@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI just use atool (archive tool) instead. It works the same for any common compression format (tar, gzip, zip, 7zip, rar, etc) and comes with handy aliases like apack and aunpack obsoleting the need to memorize options.
minus-squaresonnenzeit@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago ouch stands for Obvious Unified Compression Helper. great name
minus-squareQwerty-Space@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoOuch doesn’t do 7z though
minus-squarekattenluik@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIt seems like it supports LZMA files which I believe is what 7z files are?
minus-squareQwerty-Space@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoLzma is a compression algorithm, not (just) a file format .7z files support lzma compression, but do not use it exclusively
I just use atool (archive tool) instead. It works the same for any common compression format (tar, gzip, zip, 7zip, rar, etc) and comes with handy aliases like
apackandaunpackobsoleting the need to memorize options.There’s ouch too.
great name
Ouch doesn’t do 7z though
It seems like it supports LZMA files which I believe is what 7z files are?
Lzma is a compression algorithm, not (just) a file format
.7z files support lzma compression, but do not use it exclusively