When handling log files, some end up as gzipped files thanks to logrotate and others not. So when you try something like this:
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 my friendly implicit reference to tar)
Buildroot is generating images for an embedded device where they should run. This is working very well. In those images, the rootfs is included.
I do a ton of file compression. Most of the stuff I am compressing is just code, so I need to use lossless compression.
I am using Ubuntu, and I would like to be able to type less compressed_text_file.gz and page the contents of the text file in uncompressed form. Is there a way to do this?
At the moment, if I download a compressed file, it could be any of a .tar.gz archive, a tar.bz2 arhive, a .zip archive or a .gz archive. And each time I do so, I have to remember what the command line options for that program are.
How can I use ffmpeg to reduce the size of a video by lowering the quality (as minimally as possible, naturally, because I need it to run on a mobile device that doesn’t have much available space)?
So I need to compress a directory with max compression.
I usually assumed that tar was a compression utility, but I am unsure, does it actually compress files, or is it just like an ISO file, a file to hold files?
I think the quiestion is pretty straight forward.