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compressionarchivezstd

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

Suppose I have two files:

  • file1.zst
  • file2.tar.zst

How can I decompress these files in terminal?

Solution

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