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====**XZ Utils**====
[[http://tukaani.org/xz/ file compression]]
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~-[[software]] package ##xz##
~~-[[http://www.smokey01.com/coolpup binary code]]
~~-[[http://tukaani.org/xz/ source code]]
~~-##+[[bzip2]],+[[grep]],+[[gzip]],+[[tar]],+[[zlib]]##
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~-xz compression creates:
~~-30% smaller output than gzip compression
~~-15% smaller output than bzip2 compression
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~-verify installed version via the command-line interface: %%xz --version%%
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~-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...]%%
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~-to decompress (extract) a file or directory with the extension //.xz//: %%xz -d [file...] [dir...]%%
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~-to compress a file or directory with xz compression: %%xz [file...] [dir...]%%
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~-to create an archive of a directory with xz compression: %%tar cfJv file.tar.xz [dir...]%%
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~-%%./configure CFLAGS="-mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --host=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-static%%
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~-http://www.qa.com/about-qa/blogs/2010/april/getting-to-know-xz-as-the-best-compression-tool
~-http://www.t2-project.org/packages/xz.html
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