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did a quick check, zip on linux does not support lz4, zstd but 7z does, so I'm going to use 7z more, unfortunately 7z is still not universally installed on *nix

• loeg 4y ago
  Why not just use zstd directly?
  • synergy20 4y ago
    want to have encryption and compression all in one command for simplicity, zip and 7a are the only two do both
  • Alifatisk 4y ago
    Zstd doesn’t archive multiple files?
• dikei 4y ago
  You are conflating compression algorithms with archive file formats. Use `tar` format and you can combine it with whatever compression utilities available such as `gzip`, `bzip2`, `lz4`, `zstd`, `xz`, etc. `tar` also preserves Unix permission. The downside is tar doesn't have an index for random-access, so you cannot do partial extraction quickly. Use `zip` format if you don't care about Unix permission, and want to do partial extraction. `Zip` technically support multiple compression algorithms, but is primarily only used with DEFLATE (the same one as `gzip`) for compatibility reason.