[solved] Why is there no .gz.tar? (lemmy.zip)

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A .tar archive is basically only the files cat'ed together, with a header and index added, right?

And a .tar.gz takes forever to modify, because it needs to first extract the .tar.

So why is there no archive format that just cat'es the compressed files together?

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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I mean... you can do that manually. Apply gzip or xz or whatever to each file then just make a tarball of the compressed files. You could write a shell script to do that.

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