lzip

Software project home page: http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html

Distribution: source code
Distribution: binary code

Verify installed version via the command-line interface:

Archive file management

• To extract (un-pack) an archive, with file extension .tar.lz

  tar xfv archive.tar.lz

• To create an archive of a directory, with file extension .tar.lz and with high compression

  tar -I 'lzip -8' -vcf archive.tar.lz [dir...]

Non-archive file management

• To decompress (extract) a file that has lzip compression
  lzip -dv [file...]


• To compress a file with lzip compression
  lzip -Fv [file...]

Configuration options for compiling

./configure CPPFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" CXXFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro" --prefix=/usr

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