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Universal extractors

With an increasing number of archive/compression file formats, is there a single free/open-source command line tool to rule them all? Perhaps something with a consistent / unified set of flags? (note ...
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Difference between --xz and --lzma in GNU tar?

As far as I can tell, XZ is a container that uses the LZMA2 algorithm (i.e. extended LZMA); but e.g. $ xz foo/ complains about foo/ being a directory. So presumably the correct way to preserve ...
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Triple compression and I only save 1% in space?

I've been trying to save space on my linux server, and I had a folder containting, in subfolders, 22GB of images. So I decided to compress them. First I used tar: tar -zcf folder.tar folder Then ...
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Can tar archiver zerofill a file?

I have received a tar archive from a co-worker and after decompresing I found that some text files are corrupted. More precisely they are filled with zeros. They have correct size but all bytes are ...
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On the Fly Compression for a Directory

I have a directory that is always going to be storing text files that are rarely (think weekly) used. Naturally this is a great place to use compression. However, rather than having to use tar ever ...
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Different count for compressed file listing vs directory listing

I was taking a backup of a folder, where I used the following command : sudo tar -zcvf www.tar.gz /var/www/ It successfully compressed, just for verifying the number of files in the compressed ...
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How to XZ a directory with TAR using maximum compression?

So I need to compress a directory with max compression. How can I do it with xz? I mean I will need tar too because I can't compress a directory with only xz. Is there a oneliner to produce e.g. ...
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How to create a tar.gz file from a folder excluding a folder

How do I exclude a file or folder while creating a tar.gz file with tar command?
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Updating tar.gz daily only with changed files [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Add/update a file to an existing tar.gz archive? I have some game files I wish to update daily and they create a tar.gz of the folder, but instead of making a full ...