Command-line tool

lrzip

brew/lrzip

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Compression program with a very high compression ratio

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install lrzip

Linux

brew install lrzip

Compress a file with LZMA - slow compression, fast decompression

lrzip path/to/file

Compress a file with BZIP2 - good middle ground for compression/speed

lrzip -b path/to/file

Compress with ZPAQ - extreme compression, but very slow

lrzip -z path/to/file

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