Recipe: Compress with lzma

Compress with lzma
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$ lzma filename
$ ls 
filename.lzma

To extract lzma file,
$ unlzma filename.lzma


stdout and stdin
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$ cat file | lzma -c > file.lzma
-c is used to specify output to stdout

Creating lzma tarball
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Method - I 
$ tar -cvvf --lzma archive.tar.lzma [FILES] 
or 
$ tar -cavvf archive.tar.lzma [FILES] 
# -a option specifies automatically detect compression format from extension. 

Method - II 
$ tar -cvvf archive.tar [FILES] 
# Create tarball first 
$ lzma archive.tar 
# Compress it after tarballing


Extracting lzma tarball 
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$ tar -xvvf --lzma archive.tar.lzma -C extract_directory 



Keep input files without removing them
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$ lzma test.bz2 -k

Compression ratio
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$ lzma -9 test.img
# Compress maximum

Use 1-9