lrz

NAME

lrz - gzip compatible command line variant of lrzip

SYNOPSIS

lrz [options] file

DESCRIPTION

lrz is identical to the lrzip application, however, its command line options and behaviour are made to be as compatible with gzip as possible.

OPTIONS

General options

--stdout

-c

Output to STDOUT.

--check

-C

Check integrity of file written on decompression.

--decompress

-d

Decompress.

--encrypt[=password]

-e

Password protect sha512/aes128 encryption on compression.

--help

-h

-?

Show help.

--hash

-H

Display md5 hash integrity information.

--info

-i

Show compressed file information.

--license

-L

Display software version and license.

--progress

-P

Show compression progress.

--recursive

-r

Operate recursively on directories.

--test

-t

Test compressed file integrity.

--verbose

-v[vv]

Increase verbosity.

--version

-V

Show version.

Options affecting output

--force

-f

Force overwrite of any existing files.

--keep

-k

Don't delete source files on de/compression.

--keep-broken

-K

Keep broken or damaged output files.

--outfile name

-o name

Specify the output file name and/or path.

--outdir dir

-O dir

Specify the output directory when -o is not used.

--suffix suffix

-S suffix

Specify compressed suffix (default '.lrz').

Options affecting compression

--bzip2

-b

Bzip2 compression.

--gzip

-g

Gzip compression using zlib.

--lzo

-l

Lzo compression (ultra fast).

--lzma

Lzma compression (default).

--no-compress

-n

No backend compression - prepare for other compressor.

--zpaq

-z

Zpaq compression (best, extreme compression, extremely slow).

Low level options

-1 .. -9

--level level

-L level

Set lzma/bzip2/gzip compression level (1-9, default 7).

--fast

Alias for -1.

--best

Alias for -9.

--nice-level value

-N value

Set nice value to value (default 0).

--threads value

-P value

Set processor count to override number of threads.

--maxram size

-m size

Set maximum available ram as size * 100 MB. Overrides detected amount of available ram.

--threshold

-T

Disable LZ4 compressibility testing.

--unlimited

-U

Use unlimited window size beyond ramsize (potentially much slower).

--window size

-w size

Set maximum compression window as size * 100 MB. Default chosen by heuristic dependent on ram and chosen compression.

See also lrzip(1)

ENVIRONMENT

lrz uses the same environment and configuration files as lrzip(1)

FILES

See lrzip(1)

SEE ALSO

lrzip.conf(5), lrzip(1), lrunzip(1), lrztar(1), lrzuntar(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), lzop(1), rzip(1), zip(1)

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Con Kolivas <[email protected]> (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.