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NAME

       minilzip - reduces the size of files

SYNOPSIS

       minilzip [options] [files]

DESCRIPTION

       Minilzip  is  a test program for the compression library lzlib, fully compatible with lzip
       1.4 or newer.

       Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the  one  of  gzip  or
       bzip2.  Lzip  uses  a  simplified  form  of the 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm' (LZMA)
       stream format and provides a 3 factor integrity checking to maximize interoperability  and
       optimize  safety. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0) or compress most files
       more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is intermediate  between  gzip  and  bzip2.
       Lzip  is  better  than  gzip  and  bzip2  from  a data recovery perspective. Lzip has been
       designed, written, and tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2  as  the  standard
       general-purpose compressed format for unix-like systems.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -V, --version
              output version information and exit

       -a, --trailing-error
              exit with error status if trailing data

       -b, --member-size=<bytes>
              set member size limit in bytes

       -c, --stdout
              write to standard output, keep input files

       -d, --decompress
              decompress

       -f, --force
              overwrite existing output files

       -F, --recompress
              force re-compression of compressed files

       -k, --keep
              keep (don't delete) input files

       -m, --match-length=<bytes>
              set match length limit in bytes [36]

       -o, --output=<file>
              write to <file>, keep input files

       -q, --quiet
              suppress all messages

       -s, --dictionary-size=<bytes>
              set dictionary size limit in bytes [8 MiB]

       -S, --volume-size=<bytes>
              set volume size limit in bytes

       -t, --test
              test compressed file integrity

       -v, --verbose
              be verbose (a 2nd -v gives more)

       -0 .. -9
              set compression level [default 6]

       --fast alias for -0

       --best alias for -9

       --loose-trailing
              allow trailing data seeming corrupt header

       --check-lib
              compare version of lzlib.h with liblz.{a,so}

       If  no file names are given, or if a file is '-', minilzip 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...
       Dictionary sizes 12 to 29 are interpreted as powers of two, meaning 2^12 to 2^29 bytes.

       The bidimensional parameter space of LZMA can't be mapped to a linear  scale  optimal  for
       all  files. If your files are large, very repetitive, etc, you may need to use the options
       --dictionary-size and --match-length directly to achieve optimal performance.

       To extract all the files from archive 'foo.tar.lz', use the commands 'tar -xf  foo.tar.lz'
       or 'minilzip -cd foo.tar.lz | tar -xf -'.

       Exit  status:  0  for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file not found, invalid
       flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or invalid input file, 3 for an  internal
       consistency error (e.g., bug) which caused minilzip to panic.

       The ideas embodied in lzlib are due to (at least) the following people: Abraham Lempel and
       Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for the  definition  of  Markov  chains),
       G.N.N.  Martin  (for  the  definition of range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the
       above together in LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI).

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to lzip-bug@nongnu.org
       Lzlib home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzlib.html

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz.  Using lzlib 1.13 License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or
       later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
       This  is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY,
       to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for minilzip is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If  the  info  and
       minilzip programs are properly installed at your site, the command

              info lzlib

       should give you access to the complete manual.