| Author | Lasse Collin (all…) |
| Contributor(s) | (all…) |
| Released | 2008 |
| Source | xz.git |
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| Homepage | xz.web |
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XZ Utils are an attempt to make LZMA compression easy to use on free (as in freedom) operating systems. This is achieved by providing tools and libraries which are similar to use than the equivalents of the most popular existing compression algorithms.
LZMA is a general purpose compression algorithm designed by Igor Pavlov as part of 7-Zip. It provides high compression ratio while keeping the decompression speed fast.
| CMD | MAN | DESCRIPTION |
| unxz | (1) | Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files |
| xz | (1) | Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files |
| xzcat | (1) | Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files |
| xzcmp | (1) | compare compressed files |
| xzdec | (1) | Small .xz and .lzma decompressors |
| xzdiff | (1) | compare compressed files |
| xzegrep | (1) | search compressed files for a regular expression |
| xzfgrep | (1) | search compressed files for a regular expression |
| xzgrep | (1) | search compressed files for a regular expression |
| xzless | (1) | view xz or lzma compressed (text) files |
| xzmore | (1) | view xz or lzma compressed (text) files |
create a maximized compressed archive with using as much threads as available:
~$ xz -9 --extreme --verbose --threads=0 file ~$ xz -9evT 0 file