gzip provides command-line compression with Deflate, stream processing, integrity testing, recursive operation and rsyncable output.
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Category: Utilities
pixz – parallel and indexed xz compressor
pixz enables parallel xz compression with tar indexing, fast archive listings, selective extraction and multicore decompression.
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lzop – fast file compressor using LZO
lzop is an LZO-based file compressor offering adjustable compression levels, stream processing, integrity tests and metadata preservation.
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pigz – parallel implementation of gzip
pigz accelerates gzip-compatible compression across CPU cores, with independent blocks, zlib and ZIP output, and rsync-friendly mode.
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brotli – general-purpose lossless compression algorithm
brotli provides lossless compression with configurable quality, custom dictionaries, streaming support and compact web content delivery.
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Zstandard – fast lossless compression algorithm
Zstandard offers fast lossless compression with multithreading, trained dictionaries, adjustable levels and streaming support.
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LZ4 – extremely fast lossless data compression
LZ4 is a fast lossless compressor with dictionary support, streaming APIs, adjustable acceleration and a high-compression mode.
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xdiskusage – user-friendly software to show your disk usage
xdiskusage is a user-friendly program to show you what is using up all your disk space. It is based on the design of xdu.
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SquirrelDisk – disk usage tool
SquirrelDisk is a GUI tool to help you reclaim disk space. It’s written in TypeScript and Rust and published under an open source license.
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agedu – utility for tracking down wasted disk space
agedu is a utility for tracking down wasted disk space. It correlates disk usage with last-access times to identify large and disused data.
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Disk Usage Analyser – view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure
Disk Usage Analyser (also known as baobab) is a graphical, menu-driven application to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure.
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Filelight – tool to show disk usage
Filelight allows you to determine disk space being used by graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings.
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dirstat-rs – disk usage cli
dirstat-rs is a command-line disk usage utility, similar to windirstat. The tool can output sorted JSON.
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tdu – top disk usage
This command-line tool estimates the disk space occupied by all files in a given path.
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pdu – parallel disk usage utility
Parallel Disk Usage (pdu) is a highly parallelized, fast directory tree analyzer.
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godu – disk usage analyzer
godu is a simple golang utility helping you to discover large files/folders. This is a terminal based tool.
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erdtree – multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer
erdtree is multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer that respects hidden files and .gitignore rules by default.
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dua – disk usage analyzer
dua (Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory.
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gdu – disk usage analyzer
gdu is a disk usage analyser with console interface. gdu is free and open source software.
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ncdu – disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface
NCurses Disk Usage (ncdu) is a ncurses-based du viewer. It provides a fast and easy-to-use interface through the well known du utility.
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