lzip-go is an implementation of the lzip compressed format written in pure Go.

This package supports reading and writing of lzip compressed streams.

To install this package:

go get -u github.com/sorairolake/lzip-go

See the documentation for more details.

This package includes a simple command-line utility for reading and writing of lzip format compressed files.

go install github.com/sorairolake/lzip-go/cmd/glzip@latest

The release page contains pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows and others.

To build the command-line utility:

just build-cmd

To build a man page:

just build-man

The man page is generated in docs/man/man1. Note that Asciidoctor is required when building the man page.

Please see glzip(1).

This package requires the minimum version of Go 1.22.

The upstream repository is available at https://github.com/sorairolake/lzip-go.git.

Please see CHANGELOG.adoc.

Please see CONTRIBUTING.adoc.

The API of this package is based on the compress/gzip package.

This package uses the github.com/ulikunitz/xz/lzma package to encode and decode LZMA streams.

Copyright (C) 2024 Shun Sakai (see AUTHORS.adoc)

This package is distributed under the terms of either the Apache License 2.0 or the MIT License.

This project is compliant with version 3.3 of the REUSE Specification. See copyright notices of individual files for more details on copyright and licensing information.