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?
2 Answers
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!– slhckJan 27, 2011 at 22:25
Archive Utility, which is part of Mac OS X, supports tons of formats for extraction, among these: zip
, gzip
and bzip2
.