igzip - Man Page
compress or decompress files similar to gzip
Synopsis
igzip [options] [infiles]
Description
Compress or decompress files similar to gzip using the ISA-L fast deflate library.
Output .gz files are compatible with gzip and [RFC-1952].
Options are similar to gzip except --keep is default.
Options
- -h, --help
help, print this message
- -#
use compression level # with 0 <= # <= 3
- -o
<file> output file
- -c, --stdout
write to stdout
- -d, --decompress
decompress file
- -z, --compress
compress file (default)
- -f, --force
overwrite output without prompting
- --rm
remove source files after successful (de)compression
- -k, --keep
keep source files (default)
- -S, --suffix <.suf>
suffix to use while (de)compressing
- -V, --version
show version number
- -v, --verbose
verbose mode
- -N, --name
save/use file name and timestamp in compress/decompress
- -n, --no-name
do not save/use file name and timestamp in compress/decompress
- -t, --test
test compressed file integrity
- -T, --threads <n>
use n threads to compress if enabled
- -q, --quiet
suppress warnings
with no infile, or when infile is - , read standard input
Examples
Make compressed file1.gz and file2.gz and keep file1 and file2.
igzip file1 file2
Piped compression and decompression.
Streaming compression from output of tar, compress level 2.
tar cf - dir1 | igzip -2 > dir1.tar.gz
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to https://github.com/intel/isa-l/issues