Compress a folder into a single file using lz4 command line

Question

I need to compress the all of the contents of a directory into a single lz4 archive, i couldn't figure out a way to do that. I already have read all the available parameters, still no success. Kindly suggest me how can i achieve this.

Answer 1

Things like lz4, gzip, bzip2, and xz simply compress a stream of bytes. You need another utility, like tar, to convert a set of directories and files into a stream of bytes. The output of tar is then fed to the compressor. That's why you see archives with names like tar.gz or tar.xz.

How to use tar with lz4?