Tar.xz

About Tar.xz
xz is a lossless data compression program and file format. From command tar --help

-J, --xz                  filter the archive through xz

How can you pack file to tar.xz from terminal ?
tar -cf - forder_name/ | xz -9 -c - > file_name.tar.xz

( we suggest copy, paste and edit command than rewrite )

How can you unzip tar.xz from terminal?
tar xvfJ name_package.tar.xz

How extract tar files to specific or different directory from terminal ?
You need use -C

tar xf name_package.tar.xz -C /path/to/dir/

How extract without first directory and to different directory ?
You need use --strip=1

tar xvfJ name_package.tar.xz --strip=1 -C /path/to/dir/

Where, x = extract v = verbose f = use archive file -J, --xz = archive xz        --strip = number leading components from file names on extraction -C, --directory = change directory ( for unpack )