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VanessaCorr Aug 8, 2023

Do you ever feel like you have to apologize for .7z archives?

https://lemm.ee/post/3563067

Do you ever feel like you have to apologize for .7z archives? - lemm.ee

Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z

∟⊔⊤∦∣≶Aug 8, 2023

Can’t comment on that because I don’t send archives very often, but here’s my aliases (aliae?) in my .bashrc to make extracting easier:

alias 7x=‘7z x’ alias untar=‘tar -xvf’ alias untargz=‘tar -xvzf’ alias untarxz=‘tar -xf’ alias ux=‘unrar x’

and for zip files it’s just unzip

sovietknuckles [she/her]Aug 8, 2023

alias untar=‘tar -xvf’

alias untargz=‘tar -xvzf’

alias untarxz=‘tar -xf’

Modern tar handles all of those with tar xf

Dr. Jenkem Aug 8, 2023

Wouldn’t ‘7z x’ handle all of the above as well?

sovietknuckles [she/her]

Sort of. 7z x on a .tar.gz (or .tar.xz) gives you a .tar. If you don’t mind running 7z x again on that tar, it works