QZIP(1)

💅 QZIP — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay bestie, so this is QZIP(1) from the General Commands Manual — yeah, the qzip one. let's get into it 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

qzip — compress or decompress with qat acceleration 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

qzip [ -AdfhHkLCro ] [ name ...  ]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. name is whatever files you're pointing at, and the flags go brrr in the front 🎀

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so picture this: QATzip is a user space library that builds on top of the Intel QuickAssist Technology user space library, and its whole thing — its entire main character energy — is giving you extended accelerated compression and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and decompression request(s) onto the Intel Chipset Series. 👑

so instead of your CPU doing all the heavy lifting and crying about it, the requests get handed off. iconic. no cap.

and here's the important part bestie: QATzip produces data using the standard gzip format (RFC1952) with extended headers. which means?? it means the data can be decompressed with a compliant gzip implementation. so you're not locked in, you're not trapped, you're just accelerated. 🫶

and QATzip is design — yes, design, that's what the page says, we're keeping it — to take full advantage of the performance provided by Intel® QuickAssist Technology. that's the whole point. that's the dream. ✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay here's the menu, one bullet per flag, don't skip a single one, I would never do that to you:

• -A, --algorithm — set the algorithm type. currently the only thing it supports is deflate. so. that's the algorithm. deflate. periodt. 💀
• -d, --decompress — decompress. that's it. that's the flag. she's straightforward and I respect her. 🔥
• -f, --force — force overwrite of the output file, and compress links. it's giving "I said what I said". 👑
• -h, --help — give this help. you're literally looking at the help-adjacent situation right now, bestie. 🙈
• -H, --huffmanhdr — set the huffman header type. yes that's the whole description. we love a mysterious queen. 🌸
• -k, --keep — Keep (don't delete) the input files during compression or decompression. so the originals survive. the originals stay. 🥹
• -L, --level — set the compression level. you know, the level. of compression. ⭐
• -C, --chunksz — set the chunk size. chunks! sized! by you! 💜
• -r — set the max in-flight request number. no long option for this one, she's a lone wolf. 🐺
• -o — set the output file name. again no long option, she keeps it simple. 🎀

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

this part is legally required so we are keeping every single character exactly as written, no vibes-based editing, no summarizing, no skipping the boring bits (there are no boring bits, it's all load-bearing):

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🚨 bestie listen: that warranty disclaimer is not a joke and not a vibe. it's "AS IS", there are NO express or implied warranties, and liability is disclaimed. read it, respect it, don't come for Intel. 💀

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and that's the whole page!! 🦋✨ you now know qzip better than 90% of the people who use it, and honestly that's on periodt.

this little love letter to compression comes to you from the local source, filed under the manual page QZIP(1) — go forth and offload those requests, my gorgeous little sysadmin 🫶💖🎀