AIO Compress

All-in-One Command-line Compression Tool for modern multi-core machines

Usage: aio [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Compress or uncompress FILEs (by default, compress FILEs in-place).

  -1, --fast
        compression level 1
  -2    compression level 2
  -3    compression level 3
  -4    compression level 4 (default)
  -5    compression level 5
  -6    compression level 6
  -7    compression level 7
  -8    compression level 8
  -9, --best
        compression level 9 (equivalent to 4 in zstd and 11 in brotli)
  -S string
        use provided suffix on compressed files (default "gz")
  --algorithm string
        brotli, zlib, bzip2, s2, zstd, lz4, lzma, xz (default "gzip")
  -c, --stdout
        write on standard output, keep original files unchanged
  --cores int
        number of cores to use for parallelization
  -d, --decompress
        decompress; see also -c and -k
  -f, --force
        force overwrite of output file
  -h, --help
        print this help message
  -k, --keep
        keep original files unchanged
  -l int
        compression level (1 = fastest, 9 = best) (default 4)
  -r, --recursive
        operate recursively on directories
  -t, --test
        test compressed file integrity
  -v, --verbose
        be verbose

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

License

This project is licensed under the ISC License.

Copyright (c) 2020-2025 Pedro F. Albanese - ALBANESE Research Lab.