Re: 7zr compress include subdirs?
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Anand Sivaram wrote:
> If you are using tar, then try "xz" instead of 7-zip. Both xz and 7-zip use
> lzma2 compression. But xz command line utility is very similar to
> gzip/bzip2, so most of the gzip options could be used. In fact tar has a
> filter also for xz which is 'J'. It can be used just like gzip
> tar cfJ something.tar.xz something (that is the same as, tar cf - something
> | xz > something.tar.gz)
> tar xfJ something.tar.xz
And Debian supports it for packaging source, and automake supports it for
make dist-xz...
Xz is a better choice for software distribution than 7zip, in the general
case.
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