Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and an user interface almost identical to the one of bzip2. Lzip is only a data compressor, not an archiver. It has no facilities for multiple files, encryption, or archive-splitting, but, in the Unix tradition, relies instead on separate external utilities such as GNU Tar for these tasks.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/lzip/

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip


EcksZed (XZ) is a related compression tool.

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CategoryCompression