alecsargent@lemmy.zip to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 hours agoThat is a lot of flagslemmy.zipexternal-linkmessage-square117linkfedilinkarrow-up1607arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1599arrow-down1external-linkThat is a lot of flagslemmy.zipalecsargent@lemmy.zip to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 hours agomessage-square117linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebobzrkr@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·18 hours agoThe flag to extract .bz2 files is ‘j’. Not confusing at all.
minus-squarepelya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-214 hours agoBurrows–Wheeler algorithm or block-compression algorithm, the bzip2 file compression program was developed by Julian Seward. Ah yes, totally makes sense. XZ Utils started as a Unix port of Igor Pavlov’s LZMA (Lempel–Ziv–Markov) algorithm, by Lasse Collin, and then by the Tukaani Project. So apparently the uppercase J stands for “that guy who made a better compression algorithm than Julian”.
The flag to extract .bz2 files is ‘j’. Not confusing at all.
Burrows–Wheeler algorithm or block-compression algorithm, the bzip2 file compression program was developed by Julian Seward.
Ah yes, totally makes sense.
XZ Utils started as a Unix port of Igor Pavlov’s LZMA (Lempel–Ziv–Markov) algorithm, by Lasse Collin, and then by the Tukaani Project.
So apparently the uppercase
Jstands for “that guy who made a better compression algorithm than Julian”.