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LZMA is an improved version of famous LZ77 compression algorithm. It was improved in way of maximum increasing of compression ratio, keeping high decompression speed and low memory requirements for decompressing. lzma command line tool has a similar interface to gzip(1) and bzip2(1) and is intended to make use of LZMA compression easy for the users who are already familiar with gzip and bzip2.

The following will compress a file. The -k option states for lzma to do not delete the input file after compression. The -v option stands for verbose mode and the -z option states for you to compress the file.

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