From 1620d8fb8e45162164ad38afad554ba6e5801160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dcaspi Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:43:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] zstd: add page (#2646) --- pages/common/zstd.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 pages/common/zstd.md diff --git a/pages/common/zstd.md b/pages/common/zstd.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f6bffaa7dc --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/common/zstd.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# zstd + +> Compress or decompress files with Zstandard compression. + +- Compress a file into a new file with the .zst suffix: + +`zstd {{file}}` + +- Decompress a file: + +`zstd -d {{file}}.zst` + +- Decompress to stdout: + +`zstd -dc {{file}}.zst` + +- Compress a file, while specifing the compression level. 0 = Worst, 19 = Best (Default level is 3): + +`zstd -{{level}} {{file}}` + +- Use more memory (both when compressing and decompressing) to achieve a higher compression ratio: + +`zstd --ultra -{{level}} {{file}}`