How to set Mac OS X's Default Compression Format?
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Mac OS X uses zip as it's default compression format. It makes this conveniently available from the contextual menu (control-click/right-click). I'd like to adjust this default to bzip2. I can do this via the command line with... ... I could even wrap that in an Automator action or such, but it wou…
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tar cfj something.tar.bz2 something
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/System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility does have a preference setting for the archive format, but it only seems to control archives created by Archive Utility, not with the Finder. Plus, its format choices are Zip, regular (cpio archive), and …
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