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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.36.
.TH LZIP "1" "September 2009" "Lzip 1.8" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
Lzip \- manual page for Lzip 1.8
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lzip
[\fIoptions\fR] [\fIfiles\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Lzip \- A data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-member\-size=\fR<n>
set member size limit in bytes
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-stdout\fR
send output to standard output
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decompress\fR
decompress
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR
overwrite existing output files
.TP
\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-keep\fR
keep (don't delete) input files
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-match\-length=\fR<n>
set match length limit in bytes [80]
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output=\fR<file>
if reading stdin, place the output into <file>
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
suppress all messages
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-dictionary\-size=\fR<n>
set dictionary size limit in bytes [8MiB]
.TP
\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-volume\-size=\fR<n>
set volume size limit in bytes
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-test\fR
test compressed file integrity
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
be verbose (a 2nd \fB\-v\fR gives more)
.TP
\fB\-1\fR .. \fB\-9\fR
set compression level [default 6]
.TP
\fB\-\-fast\fR
alias for \fB\-1\fR
.TP
\fB\-\-best\fR
alias for \fB\-9\fR
.PP
If no file names are given, lzip compresses or decompresses
from standard input to standard output.
Numbers may be followed by a multiplier: k = kB = 10^3 = 1000,
Ki = KiB = 2^10 = 1024, M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, G = 10^9, Gi = 2^30, etc...
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org
Lzip home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2009 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B Lzip
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B Lzip
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info Lzip
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.