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| pixz | libarchive | |
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| 8 | 33 | |
| 684 | 2,870 | |
| - | 4.1% | |
| 4.8 | 8.8 | |
| about 1 month ago | 6 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
libarchive
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The XZ attack and timeline
29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.
- Zip entry size unset now honors user requested compression level
- Suspicious libarchive pull request
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Potentially malicious commit by same author on libarchive: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609
- WinRAR musste shady werden.
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Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux
Full agreement, and with the addition of xpk¹/xfd² as natural extensions to that extensibility too. I see things like xfd supporting xz¹, and I'm simultaneously amazed that it exists and happy that I don't need to do xz {,de}compression on 68k ;)
I guess we have something similar-ish with libarchive⁴, but nobody(including me) has pushed the extra mile to get file dialogs to support random compression and decompression formats.
Beyond OT: I didn't realise how much stuff was still going on at aminet, but I love love LOVE that people are still dropping new car sets for Geoff Crammond's F1GP.
¹ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpk_User
² http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfdmaster
³ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfd_lzma.lha
⁴ https://www.libarchive.org/
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WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts
I don't have a preview channel install handy to check, but apparently they're using libarchive so here's the full list assuming they expose everything it supports:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm...
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23493 for the Dev Channel
As announced at the Build conference back in May, this build adds native support for reading additional archive file formats using the libarchive open-source project such as
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Poor winrar
LibarchiveFormats · libarchive/libarchive Wiki · GitHub
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Windows 11 getting native support for 7-Zip, RAR, and GZ archives
Seems what they're using is BSD-liscensed: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki
What are some alternatives?
p7zip - A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/).
ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
notepadqq - A simple, general-purpose editor for Linux
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
asar - Simple extensive tar-like archive format with indexing
ratarmount - Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently, e.g., TAR, RAR, ZIP, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ZSTD archives
fpart - Sort files and pack them into partitions
precomp-cpp - Precomp, C++ version - further compress already compressed files
Klib - A standalone and lightweight C library
ansitest - ansible test stuff and root/bin bash scripts for Linux / OSX admins
ck - Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking (including lock-free) data structures designed to aid in the research, design and implementation of high performance concurrent systems developed in C99+.