Comments on: BASH – GZIP or BZIP2? http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/10/19/bash-gzip-or-bzip2/ Rambling About Life's Little Things, In 7 ≡ 1 (mod 6) Fashion Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:41:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bérénice http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/10/19/bash-gzip-or-bzip2/#comment-16990 Bérénice Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:11:50 +0000 http://sgowtham.net/blog/?p=1081#comment-16990 Thanks for your support, i need some time to think about this. What you wrote is great advice any way that you look at it. Thanks for your support, i need some time to think about this. What you wrote is great advice any way that you look at it.

]]> By: Gowtham http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/10/19/bash-gzip-or-bzip2/#comment-12262 Gowtham Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:06:00 +0000 http://sgowtham.net/blog/?p=1081#comment-12262 @bd_: Thanks for the info about JPEG images. I did notice that - one JPEG gave me BZIP2 while this one gave me GZIP; but had no idea why it was so :( For screenshot purposes, I couldn't easily find a file in my computer that would get compresses via GZIP. @bd_:

Thanks for the info about JPEG images. I did notice that – one JPEG gave me BZIP2 while this one gave me GZIP; but had no idea why it was so :(

For screenshot purposes, I couldn’t easily find a file in my computer that would get compresses via GZIP.

]]> By: bd_ http://sgowtham.net/blog/2008/10/19/bash-gzip-or-bzip2/#comment-12261 bd_ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:59:09 +0000 http://sgowtham.net/blog/?p=1081#comment-12261 A jpeg file is probably a bad example - jpeg images are already compressed, and so you're really testing how well they do on /already compressed/ data - which is going to be up to random chance, really. A jpeg file is probably a bad example – jpeg images are already compressed, and so you’re really testing how well they do on /already compressed/ data – which is going to be up to random chance, really.

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