Tell zstdcat to decompress only the first N bytes of a file

Question

I have a collection of files compressed with zstandard, and would like to look at the first 10 megabytes of the files without decompressing the entire file. Is there way to get zstdcat to only decompress the first N bytes of a file, rather than the entire file?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 11 '19 at 22:14

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zstdcat SRC_FILE | head -c BYTES > DEST_FILE

answered Jun 11 '19 at 22:14

Cyan

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Tell zstdcat to decompress only the first N bytes of a file

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