Pzstd (1) Linux Manual Page

PZSTD – parallelised Zstandard compression, al la pigz

Description

pzstd [args] [FILE(s)]

-p, –processes: # : number of threads to use for (de)compression (default:<numcpus>)

-#

: # compression level (1-19, default:<numcpus>)

-d, –decompress

: decompression

-o

file : result stored into `file` (only if 1 input file)

-f, –force

: overwrite output without prompting, (de)compress links

–rm

: remove source file(s) after successful (de)compression

-k, –keep

: preserve source file(s) (default)

-h, –help

: display help and exit

-V, –version

: display version number and exit

-v, –verbose

: verbose mode; specify multiple times to increase log level (default:2)

-q, –quiet

: suppress warnings; specify twice to suppress errors too

-c, –stdout

: force write to standard output, even if it is the console

-r

: operate recursively on directories

–ultra

: enable levels beyond 19, up to 22 (requires more memory)

-C, –check

: integrity check (default)

–no-check

: no integrity check

-t, –test

: test compressed file integrity

—

: all arguments after "–" are treated as files