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The xz command on Linux, macOS, *BSD, and Unix-like systems offer excellent compression. It will outperform zip and other formats when we use xz with tar for maximum reduction in size. For instance, I compressed a directory having 37M size using both xz and zip. The zip file size was 31M, while the xz file was 16M after compression. Pretty impressive, isn't it? Let us see how to compress the whole directory using xz and tar.

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We all know we can use the xclip Linux command-line interface to X selections, aka clipboard. The xclip command to copy any Linux command output to the Linux clipboard directly. For example, the following will copy text Hello World to your clipboard, and you can pate it using the Ctrl+v/Ctrl+Shift+V keyboard in other apps:
echo "Hello World" | xclip -sel clip
But, I want to copy a file (or recursing into directories and copy everything) to the clipboard in Linux and then paste it somewhere else. How do you copy a file to the clipboard in Linux?

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