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TL;DR

ect

Efficient Compression Tool. File optimizer written in C++. It supports PNG, JPEG, gzip and Zip files. More information: https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool.

  • Compress a file:

ect path/to/file.png

  • Compress a file with specified compression level and multithreading (1=Fastest (Worst), 9=Slowest (Best), default is 3):

ect -9 --mt-deflate path/to/file.zip

  • Compress all files in a directory recursively:

ect -recurse path/to/directory

  • Compress a file, keeping the original modification time:

ect -keep path/to/file.png

  • Compress a file, stripping metadata:

ect -strip path/to/file.png

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