How can I decompress an archive file having .zst or tar.zst?

Question

Suppose I have two files:

• file1.zst
• file2.tar.zst

How can I decompress these files in terminal?

Answer 1

The extension .zst means that the archive is compressed by zstd.

• https://github.com/facebook/zstd

The tar command has an option -I (--use-compress-program) to specify a command for compression/decompression.

You can use it as follows.

$ tar --use-compress-program=unzstd -xvf archive.tar.zst
$ tar --zstd -xvf archive.tar.zst