lzmainfo - show information stored in the .lzma file header
lzmainfo [--help] [--version] [file...]
lzmainfo shows information stored in the .lzma file header. It
reads the first 13 bytes from the specified file, 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.
- 0
- All is good.
- 1
- An error occurred.
lzmainfo uses MB while the correct suffix would be MiB
(2^20 bytes). This is to keep the output compatible with LZMA Utils.