lzip

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Developer(s)Antonio Diaz Diaz
Initial release2008; 16 years ago (2008)
Repositorynone Edit this at Wikidata
Written inC++ or C
Operating systemUnix-like, Windows, Android
TypeData compression
LicenseGPLv2+ (Free software)
Websitewww.nongnu.org/lzip/
lzip
Filename extension
.lz
Internet media type
application/lzip
Magic number0x4C, 0x5A, 0x49, 0x50
Developed byAntonio Diaz Diaz
Type of formatData compression
Open format?Yes

lzip is a free, command-line tool for the compression of data; it employs the Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (LZMA) with a user interface that is familiar to users of usual Unix compression tools, such as gzip and bzip2.

Like

tar or cpio Unix
programs. Lzip can split the output for the creation of multivolume archives.

The file that is produced by lzip is usually given .lz as its filename extension, and the data is described by the media type application/lzip.

The lzip suite of programs was written in C++ and C by Antonio Diaz Diaz and is being distributed as free software under the terms of version 2 or later of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

History

container format with checksums and magic numbers instead of the raw LZMA data stream, providing a complete Unix-style solution for using LZMA. Nevertheless, LZMA Utils was extended to have similar features and then renamed to XZ Utils.[1]

Features

File integrity

lzip is capable of creating archives with independently decompressible data sections called a "multimember archive" (as well as split output for the creation of multivolume archives).[2] For example, if the underlying file is a tar archive, this can allow extracting any undamaged files, even if other parts of the archive are damaged.

As for the file format, special emphasis has been put on enabling integrity checks by means of an integrated 32-bit checksum for each compressed stream;[3] this is used in combination with the lziprecover program to detect and reconstruct damaged data. This recovery tool can merge multiple copies of an archive where each copy may have damage in a different part of the file.[2]

Parallelism

lzip has two parallel interfaces provided in the default distribution.[4]

  • plzip compresses any file in a parallel way. Using it with tar is insufficient, since the conventional tar program needs the entire stream before a file to locate it for decompression, resulting in non-parallel extraction.
  • tarlz combines tar and lzip into a parallel archiver much like modern archivers like RAR or 7-Zip. The solid compression blocks align with tar file boundaries, so extracting a file only requires decompressing that particular member block.

Adoption

Availability

In popular Linux distributions, lzip can usually be installed from official package repositories.[5][6][7]

MSYS2
(pacman -S lzip).

Lzip is also available for Android in a terminal-interface which was ported by Master-Console Inc.[8]

Support

Application

See also

  • Lossless data compression

References

  1. ^ Brian Lindholm (May 2009), "New Options in the World of File Compression", Linux Gazette (in German), no. 162, retrieved 2011-01-07
  2. ^ a b Antonio Diaz Diaz (2011-12-20). "Lzip Manual: Introduction". Lzip can produce multimember files and safely recover, with lziprecover, the undamaged members in case of file damage. Lzip can also split the compressed output in volumes of a given size, even when reading from standard input. This allows the direct creation of multivolume compressed tar archives.
  3. ^ Antonio Diaz Diaz (2011-12-20). "Lzip Manual: Introduction". As a self-check for your protection, lzip stores in the member trailer the 32-bit CRC of the original data and the size of the original data, to make sure that the decompressed version of the data is identical to the original.
  4. ^ "The lzip format". www.nongnu.org.
  5. ^ "Debian -- Package Search Results -- lzip". packages.debian.org.
  6. ^ "Fedora Package Database -- lzip". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
  7. ^ "Search". software.opensuse.org.
  8. ^ "Lzip for Android by Master-Console Inc". GitHub.
  9. ^ "List of Automake options (automake)". www.gnu.org.
  10. ^ "GNU tar 1.32: 8.1.1 Creating and Reading Compressed Archives". www.gnu.org.
  11. ^ "IANA — Time Zone Database". www.iana.org.
  12. ^ "Index of /gnu/linux-libre/4.x/4.12-gnu". ftp.gnu.org.
  13. ^ "Dumps | [ParlTrack]". parltrack.org.
  14. ^ "NASA PDS". pds.nasa.gov.

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