Tool to compress/decompress STDIN Is there a tool that compresses STDIN, and outputs to STDOUT? This tool (or its counterpart) should be able to decompress as well. Something simple is fine, but it must be lossless.

### gzip

Most utilities support outputting to STDOUT. Take for example `gzip`:


$ echo "asdgasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf" | gzip | xxd
00000000: 1f8b 0800 219b dd57 0003 4b2c 4e49 4f2c ....!..W..K,NIO,
00000010: 4e49 c386 b900 45ce f97c 1d00 0000 NI....E..|....


I've used `xxd` as some unprintable characters exist. Run it through `gunzip` to decompress

### xz

xz works pretty similarially:


$ echo "asdfasdfasdf" | xz | xxd
00000000: fd37 7a58 5a00 0004 e6d6 b446 0200 2101 .7zXZ......F..!.
00000010: 1600 0000 742f e5a3 e000 0c00 0b5d 0030 ....t/.......].0
00000020: 9cc8 abf9 a8be f900 0000 0000 9525 d79a .............%..
00000030: 089a c592 0001 270d f37b f284 1fb6 f37d ......'..{.....}
00000040: 0100 0000 0004 595a ......YZ


and for decompress:


$ echo "asdfasdfasdf" | xz | xz -d
asdfasdfasdf