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| author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2014-08-05 22:32:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2014-08-05 22:32:36 +0300 |
| commit | 6b5e3b9eff5b8cedb2aac5f524d4d60fc8a48124 (patch) | |
| tree | 63ae991ae1846fd46c7f1171c066a13b1a781ed1 /src/xz/xz.1 | |
| parent | liblzma: Add support for LZMA_IGNORE_CHECK. (diff) | |
| download | xz-6b5e3b9eff5b8cedb2aac5f524d4d60fc8a48124.tar.xz | |
xz: Add --ignore-check.
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/xz/xz.1 | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/xz/xz.1 b/src/xz/xz.1 index 7d7620a5..49b07784 100644 --- a/src/xz/xz.1 +++ b/src/xz/xz.1 @@ -609,6 +609,25 @@ Integrity of the headers is always verified with CRC32. It is not possible to change or disable it. .TP +.B \-\-ignore\-check +Don't verify the integrity check of the compressed data when decompressing. +The CRC32 values in the +.B .xz +headers will still be verified normally. +.IP "" +.B "Do not use this option unless you know what you are doing." +Possible reasons to use this option: +.RS +.IP \(bu 3 +Trying to recover data from a corrupt .xz file. +.IP \(bu 3 +Speeding up decompression. +This matters mostly with SHA-256 or +with files that have compressed extremely well. +It's recommended to not use this option for this purpose +unless the file integrity is verified externally in some other way. +.RE +.TP .BR \-0 " ... " \-9 Select a compression preset level. The default is |