#gzip
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #gzip from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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I was surprised to learn that gzip streams encode which operating system did the compression. I built a little tool, "gzpeek", to inspect this metadata (and more): https://evanhahn.com/introducing-gzpeek/ #gzip #metadata #programming #compr
Tar fediverse tar -cvfz fediverse.raw fediverse.tgz` ls -lh fediverse.raw 2.048 PiB fediverse.tgz 1.36 TiB According to my version of tar(1) it's entirely doable /me grins 😁 sources man tar(1) man gnu @stefano @justine corrected for syntax
Let's say you want to compress a file with gzip. That's easy: gzip foo.txt Now foo.txt is gone and you have a (presumably smaller) foo.txt.gz instead. You've heard that 7-zip can produce files in gzip format, but with better compression. Wh
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