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| Apr 21, 2016 at 14:35 | history | edited | alexis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
mention that gzip also records the original filename
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 14:33 | comment | added | alexis | Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't known that. Still, since that's not the default behavior, the point stands: Distributing a file in tar format preserves the original filename (and possibly the relative path), without intervention of the recipient. Distributing a (g)zipped file doesn't. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 3:12 | comment | added | Miles |
Yup. The name is optional in the gzip header—obviously there won't be one if you compressed the streaming output of a command—and most tools won't restore it by default (for instance, you have to use gzip --name explicitly when decompressing), but you don't have to use tar to get filename persistence.
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 0:59 | comment | added | psusi | gzip also records the original filename. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 20:58 | history | edited | alexis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2016 at 20:41 | history | answered | alexis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |