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Although 7-Zip can't "look through" a .tar.{x,g}z file - browsing a .tar.xz will require fully decompressing the .tar to a temporary location.
by mappu 11y ago
Although 7-Zip can't "look through" a .tar.{x,g}z file - browsing a .tar.xz will require fully decompressing the .tar to a temporary location.
- Redoubts 11y agoTar isn't great about any of those files either, it's just building a list while decompressing to /dev/null http://serverfault.com/q/59795 http://serverfault.com/q/59795
- aninhumer 11y agoIsn't that mostly just because of how tar is designed? It's a concatenation of individual files with headers, so you have to decompress the whole thing to get a file list anyway. At which point you might as well save the decompressed tar in temporary.