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Basic Information

Parent Format: Byte

MIME Name: application/x-xz (non-standard)

Suffix: .xz

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Introduction

XZ is a compression file format using the LZMA algorithm (so some also write the suffix name as .lzma). It is mainly used for single file compression. To compress multiple files, Tar must be used. Hence the .tar.xz suffix is often formed.