tldr/pages/common/xz.md

xz

Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files.

• Compress a file:

xz {{file}}

• Decompress a file:

xz -d {{file.xz}}

• Decompress a file and write to stdout:

xz -dc {{file.xz}}

• Compress a file, but don't delete the original:

xz -k {{file}}

• Compress a file and attempt to improve compression ratio by using more CPU time:

xz -e {{file}}