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Windows users: 7-zip can extract .xz files should you need to (article didn't mention a Windows solution).

• sp332 11y ago
  It's also quite a bit faster than Windows at opening and creating zip (edit: not gzip) files.
  • kbuck 11y ago
    You're confusing gzip (.gz) and PKZip (.zip). Windows has no native support for gzip, only PKZip.
• mappu 11y ago
  Although 7-Zip can't "look through" a .tar.{x,g}z file - browsing a .tar.xz will require fully decompressing the .tar to a temporary location.
  • Redoubts 11y ago
    Tar isn't great about any of those files either, it's just building a list while decompressing to /dev/null http://serverfault.com/q/59795 http://serverfault.com/q/59795
  • aninhumer 11y ago
    Isn't that mostly just because of how tar is designed? It's a concatenation of individual files with headers, so you have to decompress the whole thing to get a file list anyway. At which point you might as well save the decompressed tar in temporary.