XZ

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File Format
Name XZ
Ontology
Extension(s) .xz
MIME Type(s) application/x-xz
PRONOM fmt/1098

XZ is a stream compression format with built-in integrity checks. It uses LZMA2 compression. Compressed streams are able to be concatenated and still be decompressible like a single-stream file.

XZ is a successor to LZMA_Alone format, and an alternative to Lzip.

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XZ files always have lengths that are multiples of 4 bytes, and they begin with a 6-byte "magic" sequence of (hex) FD 37 7A 58 5A 00 and end with footer "magic bytes" of 59 5A. (The ending bytes can be verified as a sign that the file has not been truncated in transmission.)

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