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pixz | p7zip | |
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8 | 13 | |
684 | 735 | |
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4.8 | 0.0 | |
about 1 month ago | 7 months ago | |
C | C | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | - |
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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.
p7zip
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Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
nearly every main distro I am aware of has both available. The reason you still see p7zip is because the CLI incompatibilities vs the newer 7z/7zip executables and the general licensing issues. Most users of "old p7zip" are actually using the actively maintained https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip which is updated, supporting unix permissions and zstd and so on.
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7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps
Thank you for pointing this out! This is the source of much confusion. Although Arch for example uses https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip which seems to be reasonably maintained?
- Ark and 7-zip
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Replace p7zip with upstream 7-Zip
Then you can compile p7zip from source: $ mkdir p7zip-git $ cd p7zip-git $ git clone https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip .
- Don't Use RAR
- TIL there's a fork of the unmaintained p7zip port of 7-Zip
- I can't compress in 7zip with Ark and p7zip
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will arch replace p7zip with normal 7-zip?
April 4th was the latest release. Had some commits in May. I think it is active.
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Why is 7z so outdated?
I think the point is, the '7z' at 17.04 available in Arch Linux's repo is actually p7zip, the development of which is independent of 7-zip. So comparison of the version number is meaningless (if I am right). Also, p7zip 17.04 is released in April this year, not 2017, according to its release page
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7-Zip 21.0 alpha introduces native Linux support
this comment might clarify that.
What are some alternatives?
notepadqq - A simple, general-purpose editor for Linux
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
asar - Simple extensive tar-like archive format with indexing
NanaZip - The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
ratarmount - Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently, e.g., TAR, RAR, ZIP, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ZSTD archives
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library
precomp-cpp - Precomp, C++ version - further compress already compressed files
engrampa - A file archiver for MATE
ansitest - ansible test stuff and root/bin bash scripts for Linux / OSX admins
fast-lzma2 - Fast LZMA2 Library