Name
lzmainfo - show information stored in the .lzma file headerSynopsis
lzmainfo [ --help ] [ --version ] [ file... ]Description
lzmainfo shows information stored in the .lzma file header. It reads the first 13 bytes from the specifiedfile
, decodes the header, and prints it to standard output in human readable format. If no files are given or file is - ,standard input is read. Usually the most interesting information is the uncompressed size and the dictionary size. Uncompressed size can be shown only if the file is in the non-streamed .lzma format variant. The amount of memory required to decompress the file is a few dozen kilobytes plus the dictionary size.
lzmainfo is included in XZ Utils primarily for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.
Exit Status
0 All is good.
1 An error occurred.