LZ(1)

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version 4.0.49 · 2 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 LZ(1) 💖

okay so bestie… welcome to the lz page, straight outta the Mtools Users Manual. it's a tiny little icon, lowkey, but it does exactly one thing and it does it slayfully ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

lz — gunzips and shows a listing of a gzip'd tar'd archive 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

lz file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: lz gives you a listing of a gzip'd tar'd archive — aka a tar(1) archive that's been compressed with the gzip(1) utility. that's the whole vibe. it peeks inside without fully unpacking, and honestly? iconic. 👑

ngl though, on Debian GNU/Linux you don't strictly need it, because the GNU tar(1) program already serves the same capability with this command:

tar -tzf file

so yeah. but lz is provided in the mtools package for other platforms 🌈, and it's retained here for completeness. periodt. 💖

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Robert King (Robert.King@mailbox.gu.edu.au) wrote this page for the Debian/GNU mtools package. we stan a documentation king 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Mtools Users Manual 🎀 and the timestamp on this beauty is Wed Feb 23 00:00:00 EET 2000 — vintage, retro, still cute, still valid. bye bestie, go list some archives 💜✨

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