Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

> * Prep test data (some file to be packed)
> * run command under "time" command
>
> $ time tar -czf testout.tar.gz ./test-data
>
> real    0m0.520s
> user    0m0.480s
> sys     0m0.040s
>
> $ time zip -rq testout.zip ./test-data
>
> real    0m0.474s
> user    0m0.460s
> sys     0m0.016s
>
> Simple! Do this with uncompress too.
>
> Command syntax of each command is found in each man pages.
>
> time can be shell builtin or independent command.
>

Thank you Osamu but I stress that compression / decompression time is
not important for this application. That is why I asked on the list
what the other advantages and disadvantages of the different formats
are.

Thanks.

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