XZ Utils
file compression- software package xz
- xz compression creates:
- 30% smaller output than gzip compression
- 15% smaller output than bzip2 compression
- verify installed version via the command-line interface:
xz --version
- to un-pack (extract) files with the extension .tar.xz (or .txz), enter into the command-line interface (upper-case J option, not lower-case j option):
tar xfJv [file...]
- to decompress (extract) a file or directory with the extension .xz:
xz -d [file...] [dir...]
- to compress a file or directory with xz compression:
xz [file...] [dir...]
- to create an archive of a directory with xz compression:
tar cfJv file.tar.xz [dir...]
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