xz

Compress and decompress files with high compression ratio

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General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio

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compress a file to save disk space$ xz file.txt

decompress an xz file back to original$ unxz file.txt.xz

view compressed file contents without extracting$ xzcat file.txt.xz

compress with maximum compression level$ xz -9 large_file.iso

compress multiple files into separate archives$ xz *.log