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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 21:12:04 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 21:12:04 +0000 |
commit | eac54b7c4aec25060d7bd856f7cdc290943d6aae (patch) | |
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Adding upstream version 5.4.1.upstream/5.4.1upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/src/xzdec/xzdec.1 b/src/xzdec/xzdec.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78bc9b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/xzdec/xzdec.1 @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@ +.\" +.\" Author: Lasse Collin +.\" +.\" This file has been put into the public domain. +.\" You can do whatever you want with this file. +.\" +.TH XZDEC 1 "2017-04-19" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" +.SH NAME +xzdec, lzmadec \- Small .xz and .lzma decompressors +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B xzdec +.RI [ option... ] +.RI [ file... ] +.br +.B lzmadec +.RI [ option... ] +.RI [ file... ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B xzdec +is a liblzma-based decompression-only tool for +.B .xz +(and only +.BR .xz ) +files. +.B xzdec +is intended to work as a drop-in replacement for +.BR xz (1) +in the most common situations where a script +has been written to use +.B "xz \-\-decompress \-\-stdout" +(and possibly a few other commonly used options) to decompress +.B .xz +files. +.B lzmadec +is identical to +.B xzdec +except that +.B lzmadec +supports +.B .lzma +files instead of +.B .xz +files. +.PP +To reduce the size of the executable, +.B xzdec +doesn't support multithreading or localization, +and doesn't read options from +.B XZ_DEFAULTS +and +.B XZ_OPT +environment variables. +.B xzdec +doesn't support displaying intermediate progress information: sending +.B SIGINFO +to +.B xzdec +does nothing, but sending +.B SIGUSR1 +terminates the process instead of displaying progress information. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR \-d ", " \-\-decompress ", " \-\-uncompress +Ignored for +.BR xz (1) +compatibility. +.B xzdec +supports only decompression. +.TP +.BR \-k ", " \-\-keep +Ignored for +.BR xz (1) +compatibility. +.B xzdec +never creates or removes any files. +.TP +.BR \-c ", " \-\-stdout ", " \-\-to-stdout +Ignored for +.BR xz (1) +compatibility. +.B xzdec +always writes the decompressed data to standard output. +.TP +.BR \-q ", " \-\-quiet +Specifying this once does nothing since +.B xzdec +never displays any warnings or notices. +Specify this twice to suppress errors. +.TP +.BR \-Q ", " \-\-no-warn +Ignored for +.BR xz (1) +compatibility. +.B xzdec +never uses the exit status 2. +.TP +.BR \-h ", " \-\-help +Display a help message and exit successfully. +.TP +.BR \-V ", " \-\-version +Display the version number of +.B xzdec +and liblzma. +.SH "EXIT STATUS" +.TP +.B 0 +All was good. +.TP +.B 1 +An error occurred. +.PP +.B xzdec +doesn't have any warning messages like +.BR xz (1) +has, thus the exit status 2 is not used by +.BR xzdec . +.SH NOTES +Use +.BR xz (1) +instead of +.B xzdec +or +.B lzmadec +for normal everyday use. +.B xzdec +or +.B lzmadec +are meant only for situations where it is important to have +a smaller decompressor than the full-featured +.BR xz (1). +.PP +.B xzdec +and +.B lzmadec +are not really that small. +The size can be reduced further by dropping +features from liblzma at compile time, +but that shouldn't usually be done for executables distributed +in typical non-embedded operating system distributions. +If you need a truly small +.B .xz +decompressor, consider using XZ Embedded. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR xz (1) +.PP +XZ Embedded: <https://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html> |