The Best 6 XZ Utils Alternatives

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    gzip

    GNU Gzip is a software application used for file compression and decompression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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    Info-ZIP

    Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives. It has been in circulation since 1989.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    DAR

    dar is a shell command that backs up directory trees and files, taking care of hard links, Extended Attributes, sparse files, MacOS's file forks, any inode type (including Solaris Door inodes), etc.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

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    LZ4

    Lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

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    bzip2

    bzip2 is a file compressor that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm. It is only a compressor for single files and not a full archiver.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD