What is the difference between tar and zip? [closed]
A zip archive is a collection of compressed files. A gzipped tar is a compressed collection (of uncompressed files). Thus a zip archive is a randomly accessible list of concatenated …
Which is more efficient - tar or zip compression? What is the ...
2010年8月9日 · I'm working in Linux environment and want to know about tar and zip commands. Which is more efficient - tar or zip? I also need to know the differences between the tar and zip …
On Linux/Unix, does .tar.gz versus .zip matter? - Super User
2010年5月29日 · Yes, it matters. Actually, it depends. tar.gz Stores unix file attributes: uid, gid, permissions (most notably executable). The default may depend on your distribution, and can …
What is the advantage of using 'tar' today? - Super User
2013年3月16日 · In fact since tar and gzip are usually two processes, you even get a smidge of multi-core speed benefit that an archiver like Info-ZIP's zip does not provide. In terms of …
compression - How are zlib, gzip and zip related? What do they …
2013年12月24日 · The compression algorithm used in zlib is essentially the same as that in gzip and zip. What are gzip and zip? How are they different and how are they same? Mod note: …
Which Folder to File method compresses the most? zip vs tar.gz vs …
2021年1月28日 · I'm trying to download a large Gitlab repo in a script, and Gitlab offers each of the zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2 and tar options, and I want to pick the one that will have the smallest file …
Zip / 7zip Compression Differences - Stack Overflow
2014年2月24日 · What was surprising was that for the zip format, compressing all 130 zip files together resulted in a smaller output file than compressing all their uncompressed contents …
linux - Why do people use tarballs? - Stack Overflow
2008年11月17日 · The reason for tar allowing better compression ratios and zip being more resilient on the other hand is explained by the fact that tar is a kind of solid compression while …
Why is *.tar.gz still much more common than *.tar.xz?
For what it's worth: decompression is significantly faster for tar.gz vs. tar.xz. Decompressing the xz utils themselves takes an ~0.083s for tar.gz and ~0.280s for tar.gz (pure user time) on my …
What is a difference between zip and tgz format? - Stack Overflow
2019年3月4日 · I want to install scala at here and I'm concerned about which one to download: zip or tgz. What is a difference between these, and what are the use cases?