How to use tar with lz4?

Question

How to use tar and filter the archive through LZ4? Or any available tools? It looks cumbersome to use `tar cvf folderABC.tar folderABC && lz4c -c0 folderABC.tar`. PS: *nix environment

Accepted Answer

lz4 has a command line structure similar to gzip. Therefore, something like this will work :

```
tar cvf - folderABC | lz4 > folderABC.tar.lz4
```

or

```
tar cvf - folderABC | lz4 - folderABC.tar.lz4
```

First one compresses silently, like gzip. Second one is a bit more lz4-specific, and will also display summarized compression stats.

Decompression would go like this :

```
lz4 -d folderABC.tar.lz4 -c | tar xvf -
```

How to use tar with lz4?

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