As mentioned in @djvg's answer, Windows includes tar since 2017. But those that are unwilling to install anything and wish to use gzip or gunzip to compress or decompress single files can …

Jan 2, 2013 · It very much depends on the data being compressed. A quick test with a 1Gb file full of zeros using a standard version of gzip (with default options or specifying -9) gives a …

Jul 12, 2010 · Using gzip and aespipe $ cat clear_text | gzip | aespipe > clear_text.gz.aes #Compress & Encrypt $ cat clear_text.gz.aes | aespipe -d | gunzip > clear_text #Decrypt & …

Oct 30, 2010 · Gzip and bzip2, as well as xz and lzop, are functionally equivalent. (There once was a bzip, but it seems to have completely vanished off the face of the world.) Other common …

Mar 29, 2011 · Quoth the gzip manpage: If you wish to create a single archive file with multiple members so that members can later be extracted independently, use an archiver such as tar …

The fastest algorithm are by far lzop and lz4 which can produce a compression level not very far from gzip in 1.3 seconds while gzip took 8.1 second. The compression ratio is 2.8 for lz4 and …

In Windows PowerShell (if it matters), I would like to decompress a zip file with gzip with the argument --decompress, but unfortunately it doesn't work. Please look at the screenshot …

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Apr 15, 2015 · @PJBrunet That would be an incorrect media type because application/zip is a different format than application/gzip and tar.gz is a gzipped tarball; Zip uses multiple …

The reason tar takes so little time compared to gzip is that there's very little computational overhead in copying your files into a single file (which is what it does). gzip on the otherhand, …