Combining LZMA2 compression with tar

Here’s a short post on the way to create or extract .txz (tar.xz) archives.

This way you’ll create a .txz file:

$ tar cvJf nameofarchive.txz directory_with_files\

And that way, you extract a .txz archive:

$ tar xvJf nameofarchive.txz

Easy huh?

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