sebastiancarlos ( sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org ) to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years agoHow to write a 'tar' commandlemmy.sdf.orgimagemessage-square107linkfedilinkarrow-up1547
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minus-squarePuppyOSAndCoffee ( PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoYou do you. Compression is waste of time; storage is cheap in that you can get more, but time? Time, you never get back.
minus-squarerussjr08 ( russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 years agoYes, and I’d rather not have my time wasted by waiting on thousands of small files transfer, rather than just compressing it and the time spent of one file transferring being much smaller.
minus-squarePuppyOSAndCoffee ( PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 years agoTar achieves the same effect without time to compress and decompress.
You do you. Compression is waste of time; storage is cheap in that you can get more, but time? Time, you never get back.
Yes, and I’d rather not have my time wasted by waiting on thousands of small files transfer, rather than just compressing it and the time spent of one file transferring being much smaller.
Tar achieves the same effect without time to compress and decompress.