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I was playing around with SuSE distribution and found the messages archived with xz extension.<\/p>\n

It appears to work with zgrep.<\/p>\n

Here is the documentation<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

https:\/\/github.com\/xz-mirror\/xz<\/a><\/p>\n

0. Overview
\n———–<\/p>\n

XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus
\ncommand-line tools. The native file format is the .xz format, but
\nalso the legacy .lzma format is supported. The .xz format supports
\nmultiple compression algorithms, which are called “filters” in the
\ncontext of XZ Utils. The primary filter is currently LZMA2. With
\ntypical files, XZ Utils create about 30 % smaller files than gzip.<\/p>\n

To ease adapting support for the .xz format into existing applications
\nand scripts, the API of liblzma is somewhat similar to the API of the
\npopular zlib library. For the same reason, the command-line tool xz
\nhas a command-line syntax similar to that of gzip.<\/p>\n

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I was playing around with SuSE distribution and found the messages archived with xz extension. It appears to work with zgrep. Here is the documentation   https:\/\/github.com\/xz-mirror\/xz 0. Overview ———– XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools. The native file format is the .xz format, but also the legacy .lzma format is supported. 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