But those that are unwilling to install anything and wish to use gzip or gunzip to compress or decompress single files can create a System.IO.Compression.GZipStream object in …

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.

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?

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: file.txt.gz: unexpected end of file The correct way to represent an empty txt file would have been generating first the txt file, then compress it and, finally, decompress it:

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 …

30 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 …

Jul 11, 2011 · 21 gzip will always compress each file into a single .gz file when given a list of files on its command line. For example $ gzip -r log.2011 to recursively walk the log.2011 directory …

Between xz, gzip, and bzip2, which compression algorithm gives the smallest file size and fastest speed when compressing fairly large tarballs?

Mar 3, 2010 · 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?