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The memory usage limiter can be enabled with the command line option B<--memlimit=>I<limit>. Often it is more convenient to enable the limiter by default by setting the environment variable B<XZ_DEFAULTS>, e.g.\& B<XZ_DEFAULTS=--memlimit=150MiB>. It is possible to set the limits separately for compression and decompression by using B<--memlimit-compress=>I<limit> and B<--memlimit-decompress=>I<limit>. Using these two options outside B<XZ_DEFAULTS> is rarely useful because a single run of B<xz> cannot do both compression and decompression and B<--memlimit=>I<limit> (or B<-M> I<limit>) is shorter to type on the command line.

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If the specified memory usage limit is exceeded when decompressing, B<xz> will display an error and decompressing the file will fail. If the limit is exceeded when compressing, B<xz> will try to scale the settings down so that the limit is no longer exceeded (except when using B<--format=raw> or B<--no-adjust>). This way the operation won't fail unless the limit is very small. The scaling of the settings is done in steps that don't match the compression level presets, e.g. if the limit is only slightly less than the amount required for B<xz -9>, the settings will be scaled down only a little, not all the way down to B<xz -8>.

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Concatenation and padding with .xz files

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It is possible to concatenate B<.xz> files as is. B<xz> will decompress such files as if they were a single B<.xz> file.

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It is possible to insert padding between the concatenated parts or after the last part. The padding must consist of null bytes and the size of the padding must be a multiple of four bytes. This can be useful e.g. if the B<.xz> file is stored on a medium that measures file sizes in 512-byte blocks.

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Concatenation and padding are not allowed with B<.lzma> files or raw streams.

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OPTIONS

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Integer suffixes and special values

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In most places where an integer argument is expected, an optional suffix is supported to easily indicate large integers. There must be no space between the integer and the suffix.

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B<KiB>