Hello Linux Geeksters.
As you may know, the XZ archives became very popular on Linux and Unix systems, because of the good compression rate. In this article I will show you how to extract XZ archives on Linux Systems.
I have mentioned GNU Tar, because it is also the BSD Tar.
With GNU Tar 1.26:
$ tar --version | head -1
tar (GNU tar) 1.26
tar -xJf file.xz is used for uncompressing XZ archives:
$ tar -xJf linux-3.10-rc3.tar.xz