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Created December 6, 2013 16:54
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Most tar implementations are supposed to support xz compression along with gzip and bzip2, but some (*cough* OS X *cough*) still haven't gotten aboard the compression train.
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xzball.sh
tar cvf - $DIRECTORY | xz - > $OUTPUT_FILE
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