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/usr/bin/lzf

A small data compression library

From liblzf 3.6-r6 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running lzf --help (exit 0). permalink

lzf, a very lightweight compression/decompression utility written by Stefan Traby.
uses liblzf written by Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de> You can find more info at
http://liblzf.plan9.de/

usage: lzf [-dufhvb] [file ...]
       unlzf [file ...]
       lzcat [file ...]

-c --compress    compress
-d --decompress  decompress
-f --force       force overwrite of output file
-h --help        give this help
-v --verbose     verbose mode
-b # --blocksize # set blocksize
Options (5)
OptionDescriptionSource
-c --compresscompresshelp
-d --decompressdecompresshelp
-f --forceforce overwrite of output filehelp
-h --helpgive this helphelp
-v --verboseverbose modehelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.