tldr/pages/common/zstd.md

zstd

Compress or decompress files with Zstandard compression. More information: https://github.com/facebook/zstd.

• 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 being worst, 19 best, and 3 default):

zstd -{{level}} {{file}}

• Use more memory (both when compressing and decompressing) to achieve a higher compression ratio:

zstd --ultra -{{level}} {{file}}