Command Line Interface (CLI) can be created using the make command without any additional parameters. There are also multiple targets that create different variations of CLI:
lz4 : default CLI, with a command line syntax close to gziplz4c : Same as lz4 with additional support legacy lz4 commands (incompatible with gzip)lz4c32 : Same as lz4c, but forced to compile in 32-bits modeCLI supports aggregation of parameters i.e. -b1, -e18, and -i1 can be joined into -b1e18i1.
CLI includes in-memory compression benchmark module for lz4. The benchmark is conducted using a given filename. The file is read into memory. It makes benchmark more precise as it eliminates I/O overhead.
The benchmark measures ratio, compressed size, compression and decompression speed. One can select compression levels starting from -b and ending with -e. The -i parameter selects a number of seconds used for each of tested levels.
The full list of commands can be obtained with -h or -H parameter:
Usage :
lz4 [arg] [input] [output]
input : a filename
with no FILE, or when FILE is - or stdin, read standard input
Arguments :
-1 : Fast compression (default)
-9 : High compression
-d : decompression (default for .lz4 extension)
-z : force compression
-f : overwrite output without prompting
--rm : remove source file(s) after successful de/compression
-h/-H : display help/long help and exit
Advanced arguments :
-V : display Version number and exit
-v : verbose mode
-q : suppress warnings; specify twice to suppress errors too
-c : force write to standard output, even if it is the console
-t : test compressed file integrity
-m : multiple input files (implies automatic output filenames)
-r : operate recursively on directories (sets also -m)
-l : compress using Legacy format (Linux kernel compression)
-B# : Block size [4-7] (default : 7)
-BD : Block dependency (improve compression ratio)
--no-frame-crc : disable stream checksum (default:enabled)
--content-size : compressed frame includes original size (default:not present)
--[no-]sparse : sparse mode (default:enabled on file, disabled on stdout)
Benchmark arguments :
-b# : benchmark file(s), using # compression level (default : 1)
-e# : test all compression levels from -bX to # (default : 1)
-i# : minimum evaluation time in seconds (default : 3s)
-B# : cut file into independent blocks of size # bytes [32+]
or predefined block size [4-7] (default: 7)
All files in this directory are licensed under GPL-v2. See COPYING for details. The text of the license is also included at the top of each source file.