tldr/pages/common/xz.md

37 lines
667 B
Markdown

# xz
> Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files.
> More information: <https://tukaani.org/xz/format.html>.
- Compress a file to the xz file format:
`xz {{path/to/file}}`
- Decompress a xz file:
`xz -d {{file.xz}}`
- Compress a file to the LZMA file format:
`xz --format={{lzma}} {{path/to/file}}`
- Decompress an LZMA file:
`xz -d --format={{lzma}} {{file.lzma}}`
- Decompress a file and write to `stdout`:
`xz -dc {{file.xz}}`
- Compress a file, but don't delete the original:
`xz -k {{path/to/file}}`
- Compress a file using the fastest compression:
`xz -0 {{path/to/file}}`
- Compress a file using the best compression:
`xz -9 {{path/to/file}}`