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diff --git a/doc/man/txt/xzdec.txt b/doc/man/txt/xzdec.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a914e20 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man/txt/xzdec.txt @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +XZDEC(1) XZ Utils XZDEC(1) + + + +NAME + xzdec, lzmadec - Small .xz and .lzma decompressors + +SYNOPSIS + xzdec [option...] [file...] + lzmadec [option...] [file...] + +DESCRIPTION + xzdec is a liblzma-based decompression-only tool for .xz (and only .xz) + files. xzdec is intended to work as a drop-in replacement for xz(1) in + the most common situations where a script has been written to use xz + --decompress --stdout (and possibly a few other commonly used options) + to decompress .xz files. lzmadec is identical to xzdec except that lz- + madec supports .lzma files instead of .xz files. + + To reduce the size of the executable, xzdec doesn't support multi- + threading or localization, and doesn't read options from XZ_DEFAULTS + and XZ_OPT environment variables. xzdec doesn't support displaying in- + termediate progress information: sending SIGINFO to xzdec does nothing, + but sending SIGUSR1 terminates the process instead of displaying + progress information. + +OPTIONS + -d, --decompress, --uncompress + Ignored for xz(1) compatibility. xzdec supports only decompres- + sion. + + -k, --keep + Ignored for xz(1) compatibility. xzdec never creates or removes + any files. + + -c, --stdout, --to-stdout + Ignored for xz(1) compatibility. xzdec always writes the decom- + pressed data to standard output. + + -q, --quiet + Specifying this once does nothing since xzdec never displays any + warnings or notices. Specify this twice to suppress errors. + + -Q, --no-warn + Ignored for xz(1) compatibility. xzdec never uses the exit sta- + tus 2. + + -h, --help + Display a help message and exit successfully. + + -V, --version + Display the version number of xzdec and liblzma. + +EXIT STATUS + 0 All was good. + + 1 An error occurred. + + xzdec doesn't have any warning messages like xz(1) has, thus the exit + status 2 is not used by xzdec. + +NOTES + Use xz(1) instead of xzdec or lzmadec for normal everyday use. xzdec + or lzmadec are meant only for situations where it is important to have + a smaller decompressor than the full-featured xz(1). + + xzdec and 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 .xz + decompressor, consider using XZ Embedded. + +SEE ALSO + xz(1) + + XZ Embedded: <https://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html> + + + +Tukaani 2017-04-19 XZDEC(1) |