Re: Pipe to tar or other compressor
Jim Cheetham <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you pipe to something that will compress well? Fundamentally, you don't. If you want to achieve 'maximum compression', you need to have the entire corpus available to examine before you can start. Stream compressors are a tradeoff of size against utility and speed. Additionally, different compression techniques will have different effectiveness levels against different types of input. The best way to choose for your data is to test everything :-) The various Linux magazines occasionally hold comparisons for you ... http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8051 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9370 -jim _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug