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|--decompress]}} {{file.lz4}}

Decompress a file and write to `stdout`

lz4 {{[-dc|--decompress --stdout]}} {{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|--decompress --stdout]}} {{dir.tar.lz4}} | tar -xv