XZ Utils (previously LZMA Utils) is a set of free software command-line lossless data compressors, including the programs lzma and xz, for Unix-like operating systems and, from version 5.0 onwards, Microsoft Windows.

2020年3月4日 · This article explains how to use the tar command to extract (or unzip) .tar.xz or .txz archives. The tar utility is pre-installed by default on all Linux distributions and macOS. To extract a tar.xz file, invoke the tar command with the --extract (-x) option and specify the archive file name after the -f option:

The .xz format supports multiple compression algorithms, which are called "filters" in the context of XZ Utils. The primary filter is currently LZMA2. With typical files, XZ Utils create about 30 % smaller files than gzip.

XZ Utils are a complete C99 implementation of the .xz file format. XZ Utils were originally written for POSIX systems but have been ported to a few non-POSIX systems as well. The core of the XZ Utils compression code is based on LZMA SDK but it has been modified significantly to be suitable for XZ Utils.

2024年4月16日 · Unlike gzip, xz supports multithreading directly, which speeds up compression. By default, xz uses just a single thread. We can specify the number of threads with the -T option. A value of 0 tells xz to use one thread for every available CPU core. That’s generally a good default value to use: $ xz -vT0 data.csv

2024年1月1日 · xz is one of the popular compression tools for Linux. It only compresses a single file. xz is considered to be faster than bzip2 and gzip compression tools. xz is the successor to the lzma tool. The native file format is also the .xz format. However, using the lzma command compresses the file as .lzma format.

2024年8月5日 · Extract .xz files on Linux. After package installation, extract your file using the command: $ unxz file.xz. or --decompress option of xz: $ xz --decompress file.xz. Here are supported options. Usage: unxz [OPTION]... [FILE]... Compress or …

2012年1月3日 · tar xvf *.tar.xz. If you need to decompress the input manually, for example because your tar is too old to recognize xz, or you need a special path: xz -cd *.tar.xz | tar xvf - Pipes are faster than making an uncompressed intermediate file, and use less disk space too!

xz is a general-purpose data compression tool with command line syntax similar to gzip (1) and bzip2 (1). The native file format is the .xz format, but the legacy .lzma format used by LZMA Utils and raw compressed streams with no container format headers are also supported.

xz is another general purpose data compression tool with syntax similar to the older and more popular gzip and bzip2 options. With xz we will typically get a better compression ratio. We are going to cover 13 examples of xz here, showing you common tasks that can be completed and just how easy it is to use.