lz4

Compress or decompress .lz4 files. More information: https://github.com/lz4/lz4.

• Compress a file:

lz4 path/to/file

• Decompress a file:

lz4 -d file.lz4

• Decompress a file and write to stdout:

lz4 -dc file.lz4

• Package and compress a directory and its contents:

tar cvf - path/to/directory | lz4 - dir.tar.lz4

• Decompress and unpack a directory and its contents:

lz4 -dc dir.tar.lz4 | tar -xv

• Compress a file using the best compression:

lz4 -9 path/to/file