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Compress and Decompressing Archives in Linux

Tips and Traps

  1. Always test integrity of the compressed file before you throw away the original archives. I've seen a case before that a large zip file generated in Windows cannot be unzipped correctly in Linux. Not sure what happend though.

  2. Zstd is currently the best compression/decompression tool. It …