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NAME

6       lzmadec - small and fast LZMA decoder
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SYNOPSIS

9       lzmadec [--help] [everything else is ignored]
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DESCRIPTION

12       lzmadec  is  a small and fast decoder for LZMA compressed files.  It is
13       intended to work as a drop-in replacement for lzma in situations  where
14       available  disk  space  is limited, only decoder is needed and the data
15       can be decompressed from the standard input  to  the  standard  output.
16       This  has  been  achieved by simply ignoring all command line arguments
17       except --help.
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DIAGNOSTICS

20       lzmadec returns 0 on success and 1 on error. Checking the  exit  status
21       is  the only way to detect errors because lzmadec never prints any mes‐
22       sages except when --help is specified.
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EXAMPLES

25       You can replace lzma executable with lzmadec for example in  this  kind
26       of situations:
27       lzma -d < myfile.lzma > myfile || echo Error
28       lzma -d < myfile.lzma | less
29       tar xf myfile.tar.lzma --use=lzma myfile1.bin myfile2.txt
30       tar xYf myfile.tar.lzma (Requires tar patched to support LZMA.)
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AUTHORS

33       LZMAdec  (lzmadec) is part of the LZMA utils written originally for the
34       Tukaani   Linux    by    Lasse    Collin    <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>.
35       http://tukaani.org/lzma/
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37       The  actual  decoding  is done by the code from the LZMA SDK written by
38       Igor Pavlov. http://7-zip.org/sdk.html
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SEE ALSO

41       lzma(1), lzmainfo(1)
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