snappy

Fast compression/decompression library with command-line tools

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Compression/decompression library aiming for high speed

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Compress a file using snappy format$ snappy -c input.txt > input.txt.snappy

Decompress a snappy-compressed file$ snappy -d input.txt.snappy > input.txt

Compress data from stdin and output to stdout$ cat largefile.txt | snappy -c > largefile.snappy