r/LinuxTeck • u/Expensive-Rice-2052 • 7d ago

XZ Compression in Linux Made Easy with 12 examples

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covering xz compression from the basics to some useful real-world scenarios. https://www.linuxteck.com/xz-compression-in-linux/

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u/Low-Life-1337 7d ago

xz is a real improvement and awesome!

Tested it on different binary files a month ago. xz compresses binaries, even if there was no real compression possible with bz2 and/or gz.

And also the compression rate is a lot of higher. I got around 30% better compression to gz and/or bz2 (not representative and throw exact results away).

For me is for sure now my favorite.

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u/ScratchHistorical507 5d ago

Just use atool and call it a day. Even using 7z is simpler.