the fear of missing out a better compression

boom

Me trying to decompress a .tar file

You don't need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.

German here and no shit - that is how I remember that since the first time someone made that comment

scp

It's just a different layer of compression. Better than gzip generally, but the tradeoffs are exactly the same.

Happy cake day!

Voicebanks for Utau (free (as in beer, iirc) clone of Vocaloid) are primarily distributed as SHIFT-JIS encoded zips. For example, try downloading Yufu Sekka's voicebank: http://sekkayufu.web.fc2.com/ . If I try to unzip the "full set" zip, it produces a folder called РсЙ╠ГЖГtТPУ╞Й╣ГtГЛГZГbГgБi111025Бj. But unar detects the encoding and properly extracts it as 雪歌ユフ単独音フルセット（111025). I'm sure there's some flag you can pass to unzip to specify the encoding, but I like having unar handle it for me automatically.

7z is available for Linux as well (CLI only)

It is open-source too.

There's several levels you can use to trade off additional space for requiring more processing power. That being said, I hate xz and it still feels slow AF every time I use it.

Same algo as in 7z

wait until you learn about .tar.lz

Almost, I think.

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wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -

  

Linux adds .demon_portal files all over my computer too.

Yeah, those tend to be pre-folder settings for the File Explorer.
Like View options, thumbnails and such.

It's been a while for me, but I think there was something specially for thumbnails too. You might find one if you go into the folder options and set a folder to optimized for pictures/videos and add some to it.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Correct. It contains filesystem metadata that's not supported in the zip files "filesystem".

Thanks! Hmm, never thought of looking at 7zip's settings to see if it can autodelete/not unpack that stuff. I'll see if I can find such a setting!

Yeah totally!

frantically searches for the meaning of all those abbreviations

That is an interesting implementation of security through obscurity…

How does one enable this on the standard 7Zip client?

First bundling everything in a tar file just to compress the thing in an individual step is kinda stupid, though. Everything takes much longer because of that. If you don't need to preserve POSIX permissions, tar is pointless anyway.

Wut?

yes, and you still need zhe mnemonics

They really, really aren’t. Let’s take a look at this command together:

        curl -L [some url goes here] | tar -xz


  

Sorry the formatting's a bit messy, Lemmy's not having a good day today

This command will start to extract the tar file while it is being downloaded, saving both time (since you don’t have to wait for the entire file to finish downloading before you start the extraction) and disk space (since you don’t have to store the .tar file on disk, even temporarily).

Let’s break down what these scary-looking command line flags do. They aren’t so scary once you get used to them, though. We’re not scared of the command line. What are we, Windows users?

• curl -L – tells curl to follow 3XX redirects (which it does not do by default – if the URL you paste into cURL is a URL that redirects (GitHub release links famously do), and you don’t specify -L, it’ll spit out the HTML of the redirect page, which browsers never normally show)
• tar -x – eXtract the tar file (other tar “command” flags, of which you must specify exactly one, include -c for Creating a tar file, and -t for Testing a tar file (i.e. listing all of the filenames in it and making sure their checksums are okay))
• tar -z – tells tar that its input is gzip compressed (the default is not compressed at all, which with tar is an option) – you can also use -j for bzip2 and -J for xz
• tar -f which you may be familiar with but which we don’t use here – -f tells tar which file you want it to read from (or write to, if you’re creating a file). tar -xf somefile.tar will extract from somefile.tar. If you don’t specify -f at all, as we do here, tar will default to reading the file from stdin (or writing a tar file to stdout if you told it to create). tar -xf somefile.tar (or tar -xzf somefile.tar.gz if your file is gzipped) is exactly equivalent to cat somefile.tar.gz | tar -xz (or tar -xz < somefile.tar – why use cat to do something your shell has built-in?)
• tar -v which you may be familiar with but which we don’t use here – tells tar to print each filename as it extracts the file. If you want to do this, you can, but I’d recommend telling curl to shut up so it doesn’t mess up the terminal trying to show download progress also: curl -L --silent [your URL] | tar -xvz (or -xzv, tar doesn’t care about the order)

You may have noticed also that in the first command I showed, I didn’t put a - in front of the arguments to tar. This is because the tar command is so old that it takes its arguments BSD style, and will interpret its first argument as a set of flags regardless of whether there’s a dash in front of them or not. tar -xz and tar xz are exactly equivalent. tar does not care.

tar was nearly and adult when zip was born.