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I need to give a friend who has a Mac a bunch of files. Compression doesn't matter, only ease of use. What archive format do you recommend such that no 3rd party tools are needed for extraction? Zip?

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Gzipped Tarball. Should work anywhere.


Compress:

tar czvf my-files.tar.gz directory-of-files

(or right-click and "Compress", "Archive" on many distros)


Extract:

tar xcvf my-files.tar.gz .

(or double-click on a Mac)

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  • That's great. Please consider marking your question as answered so it doesn't stay open!
    – slhck
    Jan 27, 2011 at 22:25
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Archive Utility, which is part of Mac OS X, supports tons of formats for extraction, among these: zip, gzip and bzip2.

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