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Could that just be the archiver? I often skip UIs since they seem to take longer to show the file contents than it takes me to unpack the entire archive on the
by josefx 5y ago
Could that just be the archiver? I often skip UIs since they seem to take longer to show the file contents than it takes me to unpack the entire archive on the command line. Worse I am convinced some UIs end up unpacking the entire archive repeatedly when you select only two or three files.
- account42 5y agoNo, tar does not have a central directory record so you need to skip over all data even just to list files. Of course you can have additionall slowdowns on top of that by doing stupid things.