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7zip is more a compactor (like PKZIP) than a compressor. It's available for Linux, but it can only create compressed archives in regular files, it's not able to compress a stream for instance. It's not able to store most of Unix file attributes like ownership, ACLs, extended attributes, hard links...

On Linux, as a compressor, you've got xz that uses the same compression algorithm as 7zip (LZMA2). You can use it to compress tar archives.

Like for gzip and bzip2, there's a parallel variant pixz that can leverage several processors to speed up the compression (xz can also do it natively since version 5.2.0 with the -T option). The pixz variant also supports indexing a compressed tar archive which means it's able to extract a single file without having to uncompress the file from the start.

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Compact is archive+compress (possibly with indexing, possibly members compressed separately), archiving doesn't imply compression. It is not a DOS thing, but possibly it was a French thing. Googling usenet archives, I seem to only come across articles of mine, so it could well have been my invention, though I strongly believe it's not.

7zip is more a compactor (like PKZIP) than a compressor¹. It's available for Linux, but it can only create compressed archives in regular files, it's not able to compress a stream for instance. It's not able to store most of Unix file attributes like ownership, ACLs, extended attributes, hard links...

On Linux, as a compressor, you've got xz that uses the same compression algorithm as 7zip (LZMA2). You can use it to compress tar archives.

Like for gzip and bzip2, there's a parallel variant pixz that can leverage several processors to speed up the compression (xz can also do it natively since version 5.2.0 with the -T option). The pixz variant also supports indexing a compressed tar archive which means it's able to extract a single file without having to uncompress the file from the start.

^{¹ Compact is archive+compress (possibly with indexing, possibly members compressed separately), archiving doesn't imply compression. It is not a DOS thing, but possibly it was a French thing. Googling usenet archives, I seem to only come across articles of mine, so it could well have been my invention, though I strongly believe it's not.}

7zip is more a compactor (like PKZIP) than a compressor. It's available for Linux, but it can only create compressed archives in regular files, it's not able to compress a stream for instance. It's not able to store most of Unix file attributes like ownership, ACLs, extended attributes, hard links...

On Linux, as a compressor, you've got xz that uses the same compression algorithm as 7zip (LZMA2). You can use it to compress tar archives.

Like for gzip and bzip2, there's a parallel variant pixz that can leverage several processors to speed up the compression (xz can also do it natively since version 5.2.0 with the -T option). The pixz variant also supports indexing a compressed tar archive which means it's able to extract a single file without having to uncompress the file from the start.

7zip is more a compactor (like PKZIP) than a compressor. It's available for Linux, but it can only create compressed archives in regular files, it's not able to compress a stream for instance. It's not able to store most of Unix file attributes like ownership, ACLs, extended attributes, hard links...

On Linux, as a compressor, you've got xz that uses the same compression algorithm as 7zip (LZMA2). You can use it to compress tar archives.

Like for gzip and bzip2, there's a parallel variant pixz that can leverage several processors to speed up the compression (xz can also do it natively since version 5.2.0 with the -T option). The pixz variant also supports indexing a compressed tar archive which means it's able to extract a single file without having to uncompress the file from the start.

Footnote

Compact is archive+compress (possibly with indexing, possibly members compressed separately), archiving doesn't imply compression. It is not a DOS thing, but possibly it was a French thing. Googling usenet archives, I seem to only come across articles of mine, so it could well have been my invention, though I strongly believe it's not.

7zip is more a compactor (like PKZIP) than a compressor. It's available for Linux, but it can only create compressed archives in regular files, it's not able to compress a stream for instance. It's not able to store most of Unix file attributes like ownership, ACLs, extended attributes, hard links...

On Linux, as a compressor, you've got xz that uses the same compression algorithm as 7zip (LZMA2). You can use it to compress tar archives.

Like for gzip and bzip2, there's a parallel variant pixz that can leverage several processors to speed up the compression. The pixz variant also supports indexing a compressed tar archive which means it's able to extract a single file without having to uncompress the file from the start.

7zip is more a compactor (like PKZIP) than a compressor. It's available for Linux, but it can only create compressed archives in regular files, it's not able to compress a stream for instance. It's not able to store most of Unix file attributes like ownership, ACLs, extended attributes, hard links...

On Linux, as a compressor, you've got xz that uses the same compression algorithm as 7zip (LZMA2). You can use it to compress tar archives.

Like for gzip and bzip2, there's a parallel variant pixz that can leverage several processors to speed up the compression (xz can also do it natively since version 5.2.0 with the -T option). The pixz variant also supports indexing a compressed tar archive which means it's able to extract a single file without having to uncompress the file from the start.