# ZSTD The `zstd`, `zstdmt`, `unzstd`, `zstdcat` utilities compress or decompress `.zst` files. ## Table of contents 1. [TL;DR](#tldr) ## TL;DR ```sh # Compress folders into an archive. zstd --compress -15 --rsyncable -r 'folder' -o 'archive.zst' # Test archives. zstd --test 'archive.zst' # Print information about files in archives. zstd --list 'archive.zst' # Decompress archives. zstd --decompress 'archive.zst' ```