So I need to compress a directory with max compression. How can I do it with xz? I mean I will need tar too because I can't compress a directory with only xz. Is there a oneliner to produce e.g. ...

I am trying to create a .tar.xz compressed archive in one command. What is the specific syntax for that? I have tried tar cf - file | xz file.tar.xz, but that does not work.

Mar 2, 2017 · xz --decompress --stdout "file.csv.xz" On my pc, with windows 10, I get the following error: 'xz' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file Is the …

Dec 8, 2010 · xz - это файловый формат сжатия данных с помощью алгоритма LZMA. Чтобы использовать на Убунту, надо установить xz-utils. Установка: sudo apt-get install xz-utils …

Yeah the thought I had is that the original question could be reposed these days as "why is tar.gz more common than tar.lz" (since lz seems to compress slightly better than xz, xz is said to be a poor …

gzip and xz uses two different algorithms, and therefore they perform differently, both in terms of what level of compression they achieve and in terms of the amount of resources they consume while …

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what factors should be considered when choosing among 7zip, xz, gzip, tar, etc. for compressing and archiving files?

This options control which external binary tar calls for compressing its data stream: lzma and xz respectively. While both of them uses the same compression algorithm by default, xz is considered …

Jan 8, 2014 · More and more tar archives use the xz format based on LZMA2 for compression instead of the traditional bzip2(bz2) compression. In fact kernel.org made a late "Good-bye bzip2" …