XZ Utils is open source general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio.
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BZip3 – spiritual successor to BZip2
BZip3 bills itself as a “better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2”.
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bzip2 – high-quality data compressor
bzip2 is a high-quality data compressor. This utility typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques.
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gzip – single-file/stream lossless data compression utility
gzip provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which are also the default compression tools for Debian.
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lzop – file compressor favoring speed over compression ratio
lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to gzip. lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services.
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Brotli – generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data.
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LZ4 – lossless data compression algorithm focused on compression and decompression speed
LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed > 500 MB/s per core (>0.15 Bytes/cycle).
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jpegoptim – optimize JPEG files
jpegoptim is a utility to optimize jpeg files. Both lossless and lossy optimization are available from this free and open source tool.
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oxipng – multithreaded PNG optimizer
Oxipng is a multithreaded lossless PNG compression optimizer (CLI and library).
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zopflipng – PNG optimisation tool using zopfli
Zopfli Compression Algorithm is a compression library programmed in C to perform very good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression.
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OptiPNG – advanced PNG optimizer
OptiPNG optimizes PNG files, i.e. reduce their size to a minimum, without losing semantic information.
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pngquant – command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images
pngquant is a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.
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Lepton – image compression tool and file format
Lepton is a tool and file format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.
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MozJPEG – Mozilla JPEG Encoder Project
MozJPEG improves JPEG compression efficiency achieving higher visual quality and smaller file sizes at the same time.
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Guetzli – perceptual JPEG encoder
Guetzli is a JPEG encoder that aims for excellent compression density at high visual quality.
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hexer – multi-buffer editor for binary files
The hexer utility is a multi-buffer editor for binary files for Unix-like systems that displays its buffer(s) as a hex dump.
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hyx – minimalistic hex editor
hyx is a minimalistic but powerful hex editor. It’s written in less than 2,300 lines of C.
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hexedit – view and edit hexadecimal files
hexedit is a utility that lets you view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII.
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DHEX – ncurses-based hex editor with diff mode
DHEX is a hex editor. It can be used to alter individual bytes in large files. DHEX is a text-based program that uses ncurses.
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hexyl – colored command-line hex viewer
hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal with colored output.
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