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In order to test extraction of large files by a batch job, I wanted to create several relatively small archives. As I was creating increasingly large archives, at some point they became partial of the ...
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I would like to use GNU Parallel to process a huge .gz or .bz2 file. I know I can do: bzcat huge.bz2 | parallel --pipe ... But it would be nice if there was a way similar to --pipe-part that can read ...
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If we create a tar ball file by giving the following command tar -cvf Docs.tar $HOME/Documents/* then post creation of the tar ball is it possible to use gzip or bzip2 or xz or some other compression ...
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I am trying to uncompresss a bzip2 file (~55 GB) with the command tar -jxvf file.tar.bz2 However I found that the decompression process gets stuck at a certain file and, after waiting a long duration, ...
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I have a question, just a little thing couch my eyes it's about compression with gzip and bzip2: If I understood correctly - bzip2 requires more processing power but compresses files smaller and more ...
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#!/bin/bash # check if the user put a file name if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then # check if the file is exist in the current directory if [ -f "$1" ]; then # check if the file is ...
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I tried to build PHP v8.0.0 from its source but after running ./configure it says: ... checking for BZip2... not found configure: error: please reinstall BZip2 distribution But I have bzip2 installed ...
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Does it make sense to compress a tarball (or any kind of file, really), e.g., using gzip or bzip2, while at the same time creating redundancy files for it, e.g., a par2 file? The context is that I am ...
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If there any way to see if there is a problem with the .tar.bz2 file? As you can see, I can get a list of files, but neither xjvf nor xzvf works in this case. $ tar tf pytorch.20210702.tar.bz2 | head ...
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I know thats a pretty dumb question but I didn't found this precise question on internet I try to tar -cvjf all the contents of a directory (/*) and directly redirect that to a file (> file) but ...
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I am looking for a compression tool with an arbitrarily large dictionary (and "block size"). Let me explain by way of examples. First let us create 32MB random data and then concatenate it to itself ...
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I have a big bzip2 compressed file and I need to check it's decompressed size without actually decompressing it (similar to gzip -l file.gz or xz -l file.xz). How can this be done using bzip2?
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I am supposed to find whether a file is compressed using .bz2 or .tar.bz2(without using extension of file) and and decompress it accordingly. I used the file command but it is giving same result for ...
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I am trying to determine if there are any potential issues using bzip2 to compress files that need to be 100% reproducible. Specifically: can metadata (name / inode, lastmod date, etc) or anything ...
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I am looking to create a script - a linux or a python scrip so that it can create the following things for me as well as Verify the files for me which are copied from a folder. I Have two folders: ...
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