• used to compress the Hutter Prize data, slightly more than gzip at its slowest setting. compress and uncompress have maintained a presence on Unix and BSD...
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    Gzip (redirect from Zcat (Unix))
    Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (from which the "g"...
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  • XZ Utils (category Unix archivers and compression-related utilities)
    similarly to those of the popular Unix compressing tools gzip and bzip2. Just like gzip and bzip, xz and lzma can only compress single files (or data streams)...
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    tr is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. It is an abbreviation of translate or transliterate, indicating its operation...
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  • 'SIT!') tar (.tar, .gtar, .gnutar, .ustar, .cbt) Unix Compress (.Z, .z, .taz) UU (.uu, .uue, .enc), PC/Unix 8 bit to 7 bit encoding similar to BinHex (.hqx)...
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    which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). These commands are implemented in many shells on modern Unix, Unix-like and other operating systems...
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  • Diff (redirect from Diff (Unix))
    the early 1970s for the Unix operating system, at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was part of the 5th Edition of Unix released in 1974, and was...
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  • Tar (computing) (redirect from Tar (Unix))
    code made available in compressed tar archives.[citation needed] The original tar format was created in the early days of Unix, and despite current widespread...
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    defined in RFC 7932 and implemented in all modern major browsers. compressUNIX "compress" program method (historic; deprecated in most applications and...
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    Man page (redirect from Man (Unix))
    (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include programs, system libraries...
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  • nice is a program found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It directly maps to a kernel call of the same name. nice is used to invoke...
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  • from Unix-to-Unix Copy, i.e. "Unix-to-Unix encoding" is a safe encoding for the transfer of arbitrary files from one Unix system to another Unix system...
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  • Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...
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  • file than Unix-based systems. ?Q? – files that are compressed, often by the SQ program. 7z – 7-zip compressed file ACE – ace: ACE compressed file ALZ –...
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  • (LZW) – Used by GIF images and Unix's compress utility Prediction by partial matching (PPM) – Optimized for compressing plain text Run-length encoding...
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  • programmable. Unix filters can also be used by Data scientists to get a quick overview about a file based dataset. awk cat comm compress cut expand fold...
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    less is a terminal pager program on Unix, Windows, and Unix-like systems used to view (but not change) the contents of a text file one screen at a time...
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    nregion 10240 Dec 20 11:12 compressed.gz drwxrwxrwt 2 tsmitt nregion 4096 Dec 20 11:10 tw-sticky-other-writeable-dir stat (Unix) – Unix system call for querying...
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  • Named pipe (section In Unix)
    for its behavior) is an extension to the traditional pipe concept on Unix and Unix-like systems, and is one of the methods of inter-process communication...
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  • uncompressed and compressed sizes) may follow. Another common local file extension is 0x5455 (or "UT") which contains 32-bit UTC UNIX timestamps. This...
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  • science Executable compression – Means of compressing an executable file List of POSIX commands strings (Unix) – Shell command for extracting printable...
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  • less commonly used 18 file version which include 4 additional text files in UNIX "troff" format, PAPER3 through PAPER6. The maintainers of the Canterbury...
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    header, bootsector and setup routines. Traditionally, UNIX platforms called the kernel image /unix. With the development of virtual memory, kernels that...
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  • File archiver (section Unix)
    compress an archive file after it is created and to decompress before extracting. Not only does separating archiving from compressing follow the Unix...
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    File (command) (redirect from File (Unix))
    modified: Thu Jan 26 14:08:23 2006, os: Unix For a compressed file, file -i compressed.gz reports information like: compressed.gz: application/x-gzip; charset=binary...
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  • UnxUtils (redirect from Unix Utils)
    UnxUtils is a collection of utility programs that provide popular Unix-based shell commands – ported from GNU implementations as native Windows programs...
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  • data to a tar bitstream before compressing with 7z. But GNU tar (common in many UNIX environments) can also compress with the LZMA2 algorithm ("xz")...
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  • Cpio (category Unix archivers and compression-related utilities)
    archiver utility and its associated file format. It is primarily installed on Unix-like computer operating systems. The software utility was originally intended...
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  • Pack (software) (redirect from Pack (Unix))
    Unix shell compression program based on Huffman coding. The unpack utility will restore files to their original state after they have been compressed...
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  • compression. In Unix, compression and archiving are traditionally separate operations, which allows one to understand this distinction: Compressing individual...
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