Copy and paste this shell function into your bash
or zsh
:
function gzToXz { zcat "$1" | xz -c - -ev9 > "${1%.*}.xz" ; }
This will decompress the file using zcat
and pipe it into xz
with the highest compression setting (-ev9
). If you prefer less compression but more speed, use e.g. -5
instead of -ev9
.
Use like this:
gzToXz my.gz
which will produce my.xz
.