# \#codecxz

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## [How to decompress .xz files/ How to use streams?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-decompress-xz-files-how-to-use-streams/86307)

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**Author:** [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-decompress-xz-files-how-to-use-streams/86307 "2022-09-03T23:00:32Z")

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I have the following code for unpacking .xz compressed files: using CodecXz function decompress(in, out) stream = open(in) output = open(out,"w") for line in eachline(XzDecompressorStream(stream)) p…