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README.md More markdownification of READMEs 2017-09-23 00:27:51 -04:00
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lz.sh [archivers] shellcheck 2018-04-11 21:30:19 +02:00
xzize.sh [archivers] shellcheck 2018-04-11 21:30:19 +02:00

README.md

lz.sh (lz and uz)

The lz.sh script emulates and extends commands lz and uz from the mtools.

Note: although lz.sh is more powerful than mtools' lz and uz, you should probably use als and aunpack from the atool package instead; they are much better and atool provides several other useful commands as well. This script is still useful when you can't install Perl (atool is written in Perl).

This script handles the following archive formats through the standards options of GNU Tar:

  • tar
  • tar.gz (tgz)
  • tar.bz2 (tbz, tb2)
  • tar.xz (txz)
  • tar.lzma (tlz)
  • tar.Z (taz)

Note that you need GNU Tar, at least version 1.20 to support LZMA compressed archives, and version 1.22 for XZ compressed ones.

If the script is called as lz, the archive content is displayed. When called as uz, it is extracted.

To install lz and uz, move the script as lz in a directory in your PATH (for instance /usr/local/bin or $HOME/bin) and hard link it to uz:

cp lz.sh /usr/local/bin/lz
ln /usr/local/bin/{lz,uz}

Alternatively, you can use the symbolic links provided along with the repository by adding the bin directory to your PATH, as explained in the main README.md file.

xzize.sh

The xzize.sh script compresses an uncompressed file, or recompresses a compressed file to XZ (with default compression level).

Known compression formats are GZip (.gz), BZip2 (.bz2), LZMA (.lzma), and Lempel-Ziv (.Z). Short tar compressed suffixes are also allowed: .tgz, .tbz, .tb2, .tlz, .taz.

In case of recompression, the original compressed file is kept. In case of compression (i.e. when the suffix of the file does not correspond to a known compression format), the original uncompressed file is removed.

Note: the atool package provides the arepack command, which can recompress to several formats and not only to XZ. xzize has the advantage to recompress on the fly rather than unpacking the archive entirely on the file system and repacking it afterwards.