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archivemount
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What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?
Instead of archiving collections of images in tar or zip files, img2pdf losslessly packs images into PDF files. This makes them really, really easy to browse without unpacking or archive-mounting them.
- Archivemount: Fuse filesystem for mounting archives supported by libarchive
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The best datahoarding hint that changed my live: use RAR archives (or any other archive format, really)
archivemount can mount into the filesystem any archive format that libarchive supports, which is several: zip, rar, tar, cpio, ISO9660, 7-Zip, ar, lha/lzh, Microsoft CAB, mtree, pax, shar, WARC, xar.
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Container for archiving many small files
For bundling, my main constraint is that archivemount or gio mount archive:// can seek within the archive: so tar and zip are fine, but tar.gz is not. Squashfs also works well.
pixz
- pixz: Parallel, Indexed xz Compressor
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Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines
That's really confusing since `pixz` exists and its "pixie" pronunciation actually works
https://github.com/vasi/pixz
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Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving
pixz (https://github.com/vasi/pixz) is a nice parallel xz that additionally creates an index of tar files so you can decompress individual files. I wonder if dpkg could be extended to do something similar.
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The best datahoarding hint that changed my live: use RAR archives (or any other archive format, really)
There's pixz, which indexes the tarball, allowing listing/extracting individual paths without decompressing the whole thing.
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Hop: 25x faster than unzip and 10x faster than tar at reading individual files
Also relevant is pixz [1] which can do parallel LZMA/XZ decompression as well as tar file indexing.
[1] https://github.com/vasi/pixz
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7-Zip 21.0 alpha introduces native Linux support
Yes, it's as easy as installing pixz with symlinks pointing to xz (I think Debian even does this automatically as part of its post-installation scripts).
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C Deep
pixz - Parallel, indexed xz compressor. BSD-2-Clause
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PeaZip 7.7.1 released!
Not quite what you're asking, but if you're a 7-Zip fan and on Linux, you might be interested in pixz.
What are some alternatives?
FileFlows - FileFlows is a file processing application that can execute actions against a file in a tree flow structure.
p7zip - A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/).
rar2fs - FUSE file system for reading RAR archives
notepadqq - A simple, general-purpose editor for Linux
pdfarranger - Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.
asar - Simple extensive tar-like archive format with indexing
stash - An organizer for your porn, written in Go. Documentation: https://docs.stashapp.cc
ratarmount - Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently, e.g., TAR, RAR, ZIP, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ZSTD archives
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library
youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
precomp-cpp - Precomp, C++ version - further compress already compressed files