What is a .XZ file?
XZ is a file compressed with the high-ratio LZMA algorithm, common for Linux packages.
- Did you know
- XZ was released in 2009 and uses the same LZMA compression as 7-Zip.
- XZ is produced by the Tukaani Project and is the successor to the earlier LZMA Utils tools.
- Inside the .xz container the data is compressed with LZMA2, typically yielding files about 30 per cent smaller than gzip.
- What Analyser shows you
- Browse the file tree and compression details of archives without extracting them: ZIP in pure JavaScript, and RAR, 7z, TAR and compressed tarballs (.tar.gz / .tgz, .tar.xz, .tar.zst, .tar.bz2) through a bundled libarchive engine - click any file inside to analyse it. A single compressed stream (.gz, .xz, .zst, .lz4, .lzma, .Z) is decompressed so the file within can be opened; bare .bz2 streams are identified only.
- Open a .XZ file
- Drag a .XZ file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.