VanessaCorrAug 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

Show thread∟⊔⊤∦∣≶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

Show threadTheEntity
Check out atool which is basically a program for dispatching to such aliases (aliases that it already provides on its own).
Aug 8, 2023 at 10:21pmWeb
Show thread∟⊔⊤∦∣≶Aug 9, 2023
Dam, I gotta check this out!