man > lzmainfo(1)

LZMAINFO(1)                                   XZ Utils                                   LZMAINFO(1)

NAME
       lzmainfo - show information stored in the .lzma file header

SYNOPSIS
       lzmainfo [--help] [--version] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
       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  dic‐
       tionary size.

       lzmainfo is included in XZ Utils primarily for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.

EXIT STATUS
       0      All is good.

       1      An error occurred.

BUGS
       lzmainfo  uses  MB  while  the correct suffix would be MiB (2^20 bytes).  This is to keep the
       output compatible with LZMA Utils.

SEE ALSO
       xz(1)

Tukaani                                      2013-06-30                                  LZMAINFO(1)