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xzdec(1)                           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 decompress .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 information: 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.


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.


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 compile time, but that
       shouldn't usually be done for executables 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: <https://xz.tukaani.org/xz-embedded/>

Tukaani                           2024-01-19                          xzdec(1)

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