#38 Ensuring Maximally Compressed Files
As highlighted in Script #37, most Unix implementations include more than one compression method, but the onus is on the user to figure out which does the best job of compressing a given file. What typically happens is that users learn how to work with just one compression program without ever knowing that they could attain better results with a different one. Making this more confusing is that some files compress better with one algorithm and some with another, and there's no way to know without experimentation.
The logical solution is to have a script that compresses files using each of the tools and then selects the smallest resultant file as the best. That's exactly what bestcompress does. By the ...
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