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dlz

Easy .tar.lz4 compressor and decompressor script Ideal for compressing/decompressing large file and folders in super fast speed. If file has extension as .dlz it will decompress it other wise it will compress it with extension .dlz which is .tar.lz4 form of file or folder.
Example usage:

to compress

dlz LinuxImageFolder

to decompress

dlz LinuxImageFolder.dlz

Installation OSX: 

brew install lz4
sudo cp dlz /usr/local/bin/dlz

Installation Linux: 

sudo apt-get install liblz4-tool
sudo cp dlz /usr/local/bin/dlz

Experiments on some VM Images
18GB Linux image is compressed to 6GB in less than a min
(obviously compression percentage and time is dependant on information amount inside VM image) by https://dron.ee