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the fear of missing out a better compression
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how about
.tar.zip
or.tar.rar
?I prefer .tar.rar.tar.
.tar.zip.tar.xz
all the wayZip, RAR, 7z etc. store and compress the files. Tarballs work differently, tar stores the files and the second program compresses the tar as a continuous stream.
They originated in different mediums, programs like zip were born to deal with folder structures, tar was created to deal with linear tape archives (hence the name).
TIL
Kind of redundant. Both
.zip
and.rar
store an index of files within the archive and are a bit 'inside-out' when it comes what we get fromtar.gz
.That is, ZIP is pretty close to what you'd get if you first gzipped all your files and then put them into a
.tar
.RAR does a little more (if I remember correctly), such as generating a dictionary of common redundancies between files and then uses that knowledge to compress the files individually, but better. Something akin to a
.tar
file is still the result though.