# HOW TO: zstd

## Why?

Way faster than bzip2, it's basically streaming compression with comparable compression levels.

# Compress

```bash
tar -cvf - foo | zstd -f --no-progress -o foo.tar.zst
```

# Decompress

```bash
zstd -d -k -c -q foo.tar.zst | tar -xv
```

## Don't forget to make sure it's installed (!)

### apt-based distros

```bash
apt install -y zstd
```

### yum-based distros

```bash
yum install -y zstd
```