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/