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.TH PZSTD "1" "December 2018" "PZSTD version: 1.3.8." "User Commands"
.SH NAME
PZSTD \- parallelised Zstandard compression, al la pigz
.SH DESCRIPTION
.SS "Usage:"
.IP
pzstd [args] [FILE(s)]
.SS "Parallel ZSTD options:"
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-processes\fR
#    : number of threads to use for (de)compression (default:<numcpus>)
.SS "ZSTD options:"
.TP
\-#
: # compression level (1\-19, default:<numcpus>)
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decompress\fR
: decompression
.TP
\fB\-o\fR
file : result stored into `file` (only if 1 input file)
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR
: overwrite output without prompting, (de)compress links
.TP
\fB\-\-rm\fR
: remove source file(s) after successful (de)compression
.TP
\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-keep\fR
: preserve source file(s) (default)
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
: display help and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
: display version number and exit
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
: verbose mode; specify multiple times to increase log level (default:2)
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
: suppress warnings; specify twice to suppress errors too
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-stdout\fR
: force write to standard output, even if it is the console
.TP
\fB\-r\fR
: operate recursively on directories
.TP
\fB\-\-ultra\fR
: enable levels beyond 19, up to 22 (requires more memory)
.TP
\fB\-C\fR, \fB\-\-check\fR
: integrity check (default)
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-check\fR
: no integrity check
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-test\fR
: test compressed file integrity
.TP
\fB\-\-\fR
: all arguments after "\-\-" are treated as files