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What is the equivalent unix command to a Mac OSX “Compress” menu action?
When I right-click a file in Mac OSX and select "Compress 'File Name'", what is the equivalent bash or terminal command to get the same result?
Is it just gzip -9 /path/to/filename?
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.tgz file- tar: Unrecognized archive format
I'm trying to install a 10gen build of mongodb on my local mac running Mountain Lion (10.8.3):
I fetch it with curl at:
curl http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.tgz > ...
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What is the fastest compression method for a large number of files?
I need to compress a directory with around 350,000 fairly small files that amount to about 100GB total. I am using OSX and am currently using the standard "Compress" tool that converts this directory ...
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Decompressing these .gz files gives strange/unexpected results, can you get it working?
I have a collection of mailing list archive files all gzip'd, they're in a nested directory structure that starts with what appears to be a blank folder/jargon name.
The files are here: ...
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Split a large .gz file and gzip each of split file?
I have a large text.gz file (2GB) and I want to split it by line. I tried to use:
zcat text.gz | split -l1000000
However this generated a huge file (around 92GB before I terminated it) and put too ...
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How to list the contents of a zip along w/ file sizes and compression ratio via cmd line
How do I list the contents of a zip along w/ file sizes and compression ratio (or packed size) on osx w/ command line tools?
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Command to 'gzip' a folder?
I am new to Mac command prompt stuff. How do you create a gzip of a folder in Mac OS X? I was told by a few folks that if you want to create a gzip of a folder you should 'tar' it first and then ...
