xzdec
(1)
Name
xzdec - Small .xz and .lzma decompressors
Synopsis
xzdec [option]... [file]...
lzmadec [option]... [file]...
Description
XZ Utils XZDEC(1)
NAME
xzdec, lzmadec - Small .xz and .lzma decompressors
SYNOPSIS
xzdec [option]... [file]...
lzmadec [option]... [file]...
DESCRIPTION
xzdec is a liblzma-based decompression-only tool for .xz
(and only .xz) files. xzdec is intended to work as a drop-
in replacement for xz(1) in the most common situations where
a script has been written to use xz --decompress --stdout
(and possibly a few other commonly used options) to decom-
press .xz files. lzmadec is identical to xzdec except that
lzmadec supports .lzma files instead of .xz files.
To reduce the size of the executable, xzdec doesn't support
multithreading or localization, and doesn't read options
from XZ_DEFAULTS and XZ_OPT environment variables. xzdec
doesn't support displaying intermediate progress informa-
tion: sending SIGINFO to xzdec does nothing, but sending
SIGUSR1 terminates the process instead of displaying
progress information.
OPTIONS
-d, --decompress, --uncompress
Ignored for xz(1) compatibility. xzdec supports only
decompression.
-k, --keep
Ignored for xz(1) compatibility. xzdec never creates
or removes any files.
-c, --stdout, --to-stdout
Ignored for xz(1) compatibility. xzdec always writes
the decompressed data to standard output.
-q, --quiet
Specifying this once does nothing since xzdec never
displays any warnings or notices. Specify this twice
to suppress errors.
-Q, --no-warn
Ignored for xz(1) compatibility. xzdec never uses the
exit status 2.
-h, --help
Display a help message and exit successfully.
-V, --version
Display the version number of xzdec and liblzma.
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XZ Utils XZDEC(1)
EXIT STATUS
0 All was good.
1 An error occurred.
xzdec doesn't have any warning messages like xz(1) has, thus
the exit status 2 is not used by xzdec.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | compress/xz |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
NOTES
Use xz(1) instead of xzdec or lzmadec for normal everyday
use. xzdec or lzmadec are meant only for situations where
it is important to have a smaller decompressor than the
full-featured xz(1).
xzdec and lzmadec are not really that small. The size can
be reduced further by dropping features from liblzma at com-
pile time, but that shouldn't usually be done for executa-
bles distributed in typical non-embedded operating system
distributions. If you need a truly small .xz decompressor,
consider using XZ Embedded.
SEE ALSO
xz(1)
XZ Embedded: <http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html>
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.1.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://tukaani.org/xz/.
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