Compression Commands

unxz Linux Command

Decompresses a .xz file back to its original form.

What does unxz do?

Decompresses a .xz file back to its original form.

unxz filename.xz

unxz largefile.txt.xz

Compresses files using the xz (LZMA2) algorithm — very high compression ratio.

High-compression archiver supporting many formats (7z, zip, rar, tar, etc.).

Extracts files from a ZIP archive.

Archives multiple files into a single tarball. Use -czf to compress with gzip.

Creates a compressed ZIP archive of files and directories.

Compresses a single file using the gzip algorithm (replaces original with .gz).