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How to use zstd for fast as hell compression
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HOW TO: zstd

Why?

Way faster than bzip2, it's basically streaming compression with comparable compression levels.

Compress

tar -cvf - foo | zstd -f --no-progress -o foo.tar.zst

Decompress

zstd -d -k -c -q foo.tar.zst | tar -xv

Don't forget to make sure it's installed (!)

apt-based distros

apt install -y zstd

yum-based distros

yum install -y zstd
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