NAME

       xlunzip - test tool for the lzip_decompress linux module

SYNOPSIS

       xlunzip [options] [files]

DESCRIPTION

       Xlunzip is a test tool for the lzip decompression code of my lzip patch for linux. Xlunzip
       is similar to lunzip, but it uses the lzip_decompress linux module as a  backend.  Xlunzip
       tests  the  module  for stream, buffer-to-buffer, and mixed decompression modes, including
       in-place decompression (using the same buffer for input and output). You can  use  xlunzip
       to  check that the module produces correct results when decompressing single member files,
       multimember files, or the concatenation of two or more compressed files.  Xlunzip  can  be
       used  with unzcrash to test the robustness of the module to the decompression of corrupted
       data.

       The distributed index feature of the lzip format allows xlunzip to decompress concatenated
       files  in  place. This can't be guaranteed to work with formats like gzip or bzip2 because
       they can't detect whether a high compression ratio in the first members of the multimember
       data is being masked by a low compression ratio in the last members.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -V, --version
              output version information and exit

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

       -d, --decompress
              decompress (this is the default)

       -f, --force
              overwrite existing output files

       -I, --in-place
              decompress or test using only one buffer

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

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

       -q, --quiet
              suppress all messages

       -t, --test
              test compressed file integrity

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

   These options are ignored when --in-place is in effect:
       --insize[=<size>]
              pre-allocate and fill inbuf [default 16 KiB]

       --outsize[=<size>]
              pre-allocate outbuf [default 512 MiB]

       --nofill
              do not pass a fill function; requires --insize

       --noflush
              do not pass a flush function; requires --outsize

       If  no file names are given, or if a file is '-', xlunzip 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...

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

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

REPORTING BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2024  Antonio  Diaz  Diaz.   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.