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The only reason I stick with gzip over bz2 or 7z (lzma) is that gzip is everywhere. In reality, nobody has a file compression utility that can handle LZMA (eve
by marcinw 16y ago
The only reason I stick with gzip over bz2 or 7z (lzma) is that gzip is everywhere. In reality, nobody has a file compression utility that can handle LZMA (even though I do, I never use it).
- swolchok 16y agoInterestingly, file(1) can't identify lzma(1)-compressed files (they show up as data), but unlzma(1) reassuringly knows the difference between LZMA and random data. This came up once or twice in DEFCON CTF quals (http://www.vnsecurity.net/2010/05/defcon-18-quals-writeups-collection/ http://www.vnsecurity.net/2010/05/defcon-18-quals-writeups-c...).
- wmf 16y agoThat's why you should use xz instead of lzma (they're not the same thing) — the XZ format has a magic number.
- dbz 16y ago7-Zip utility (for compressing and decompressing different file types) doesn't?
- VMG 16y agoArch Linux already switched to xz as the default compression for packages