Using tar with lrzip next

lrzip-next and tar

While lrzip-next offers the lrztar command, using tar directly and invoking lrzip-next with the --use-compress-program|-I command is far more useful.

Synopsis

tar -I "lrzip-next [lrzip options]" -cf file.tar.lrz [ tar options ] tar files/directories
tar -I "lrzip-next [lrzip options]" -xf file.tar.lrz [ tar options ] tar files/directories
tar -I "lrzip-next [lrzip options]" -tf file.tar.lrz [ tar options ] tar files/directories

where the lrzip-next commands are surrounded by quotes. Create and Decompress lrzip-next options are not needed and are passed by tar. The tar -t option is particularly interesting since it will list out the contents of the lrz file.

Useful lrzip-next options under tar

lrzip-next function	lrzip-next command
compression methods	--lzma, bzip, gzip, rzip, lzo, zpaq, bzip3, zstd
compression levels	-L [1-9]
rzip compression level	-R [1-9]
turn off threshold testing	-T
turn on threshold percent testing	-T##
pre-compression filtering	--x86, --arm, --armt, --ppc, --sparc, --ia64, --delta [1-32]
verbosity	-v[v]
quiet	-q
show progress	-P

Useful tar options when using lrzip-next

tar function	tar command
create an archive	-cf file.tar.lrz
decompress an archive	-xf file.tar.lrz
test/list an archive	-tf file.tar.lrz
verbosity	-v[v]
change directory	-C dirname
absolute names (don't strip leading '')	-P
strip leading components	--strip-components=##

See also Piping with lrzip-next