Revision [15890]
This is an old revision of xz made by coolpup on 2011-06-24 02:13:18.
XZ Utils create 30% smaller output than gzip compression and 15% smaller output than bzip2 compression.
Verify installed version via the command-line interface:
xz --version
software software package
xz-5.0.3-w-20110523.pet 227KB {contains DEV and MAN files}
xz-5.0.2-w-20110429.pet 227KB {contains DEV and MAN files}
Dependencies: +grep,+tar
To un-pack (extract) .tar.xz or .txz files, 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:
xz -d [file...] [dir...]
To compress a file or dir with xz compression:
xz [file...] [dir...]
To create an archive of a directory with xz compression:
tar cfJv file.tar.xz [dir...]
http://www.qa.com/about-qa/blogs/2010/april/getting-to-know-xz-as-the-best-compression-tool
Categories
CategoryCompressionCategorySoftware
