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LZ4

Extremely fast lossless compression library and tool.

LZ4 prioritises speed over compression ratio; it can compress at gigabytes per second on a single CPU core. It is used inside Linux for in-kernel compression and many storage systems.

License: BSD-2-Clause

Category: CLI tools

Website: https://lz4.org/

Install

Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install lz4
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