Decompression of. Tar.xz Compressed Files

XZ is a compressed file format that uses Lzma SDK compression, which is less than 30% smaller than the gzip compressed file (. gz or tgz) and is smaller than bz2 15%.

Both the Linux kernel and the Python source code use this compression, so how do you decompress it?

Now that the tar command is ready for decompression, you can use

TAR-XJVF LINUX-4.1.2.TAR.XZ

One-line command completes the decompression once.

You can also use xz-d linux-4.1.2.tar.xz to unzip it to a tar file, and then use the TAR-XVF Linux-4.1.2.tar command to complete the decompression. The various Linux distributions may not offer XZ tools and need to be downloaded and installed to Google yourself.

Decompression of. Tar.xz Compressed Files