Compression gzip # Keep original file intact gzip -c thing > thing.gz xz # compress file xz -z file # decompress file xz -d file zstandard https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8878 https://facebook.github.io/zstd/ https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://engineering.fb.com/2018/12/19/core-data/zstandard/