| lz4(1) |
User Commands |
lz4(1) |
lz4 - Extremely fast compression algorithm
- lz4 [OPTIONS] [-|INPUT-FILE] <OUTPUT-FILE>
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lz4 is an extremely fast lossless compression algorithm. It is based on
the LZ77 family of compression scheme. At the compression speed of 400
MB/s per core, lz4 is also scalable with multi-core CPUs. It features
an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically
reaching the RAM speed limits on multi-core systems. lz4 supports
following options
- -1
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fast compression (default)
- -9
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high compression
- -d
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decompression
- -f
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overwrite output without prompting
- -h/-H
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display help/long help and exit
- -V
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display Version number and exit
- -v
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verbose mode
- -q
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suppress warnings; specify twice to suppress errors too
- -c
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force write to standard output, even if it is the console
- -t
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test compressed file integrity
- -z
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force compression
- -l
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use Legacy format (useful for Linux Kernel compression)
- -B#
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block size [4-7](default : 7)
- -BD
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block dependency (improve compression ratio)
- -BX
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enable block checksum (default:disabled)
- -Sx
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disable stream checksum (default:enabled)
- -b
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benchmark file(s)
- -i#
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iteration loops [1-9](default : 3), benchmark mode only
Report bugs at:- https://code.google.com/p/lz4/