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I got tired of looking up the options for each possible combination of archiving + compression, so today I have a "magic" bash function that can extract almost any format.
Then for compressing, I only use
zip
, which doesn't need any args other than the archive name and the thing you're compressing. It needs-r
when recursing on dirs, but unlike "eXtract" and "Ze", that's a good mnemonic.