I have a 200MB file. I want to compress this into a small file. Now I'm using TAR. but it only compresses word-like files, not binary files. So, I'm searching an alternative tool for tar to compress the binary which is also more efficient.
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Sign up to join this communityI have a 200MB file. I want to compress this into a small file. Now I'm using TAR. but it only compresses word-like files, not binary files. So, I'm searching an alternative tool for tar to compress the binary which is also more efficient.
tar
doesn't compress at all.tar
file is just an uncompressed container, itsgzip
orbzip
that compresses a tar -->.tar.gz
.gzip
will surely compress binaries. But if the binary file is already compressed (jpg
files or alike) then no compression method will be of much help. Please clarify. – pLumo Apr 24 '19 at 7:01