# Install snzip with Homebrew, Nix

Compression/decompression tool based on snappy. Version 1.0.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:snzip
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install snzip
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#snzip
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sn/snzip/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:snzip
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/snzip>
- **Version:** 1.0.5
- **Source summary:** Compression/decompression tool based on snappy
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/kubo/snzip>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kubo/snzip>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/kubo/snzip#readme>
- **License:** BSD-2-Clause
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/kubo/snzip/releases/download/v1.0.5/snzip-1.0.5.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- snunzip (cli)
- snzcat (cli)
- snzip (cli)
- snunzip (alias)
- snzcat (alias)
- snzip (alias)

## Dependencies

- snappy

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.0.5
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/kubo/snzip
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Project history and usage

snzip is a small command-line compressor and decompressor built around Google's Snappy format family. It matters in package-manager culture because it gives Unix users gzip-like commands, including snzip, snunzip, and snzcat, for Snappy streams and Snappy-adjacent formats.

### Project history

The project's NEWS file records an initial experimental release in October 2011. Its 1.0.0 release in November 2013 changed the default output to the official Snappy framing format, moving the tool away from its older native SNZ default and toward interoperability.

Later releases added formats that reflected real-world data interchange needs rather than a broad product agenda: raw Snappy and Hadoop-Snappy support in 2016, Apple iWork .iwa support in 2016, and fixes/install improvements in the 2021 1.0.5 release.

### Adoption history

The package appears in Homebrew and Nix according to the supplied package-manager facts, which is typical for a focused Unix compression utility: it is not a platform by itself, but it is useful enough to keep around when a workflow needs Snappy-compatible files.

### How it is used

Official usage examples show snzip compressing files to .sz, snunzip and snzcat acting as decompression conveniences, and tar pipelines feeding snzip or receiving snzcat output. The README also documents explicit format selection for framing, raw, Hadoop-Snappy, snappy-java, snappy-in-java, and iWork .iwa.

### Why package nerds care

Package nerds care about snzip because it is the kind of tiny format bridge that turns a compression library into shell plumbing. It keeps Snappy useful outside application code, especially for archives, Hadoop-era data, and inspection or conversion jobs.

### Timeline

- 2011: Initial experimental release 0.0.1.
- 2013: 1.0.0 changed the default to the official framing format.
- 2016: 1.0.3 added Hadoop-Snappy and raw format support.
- 2016: 1.0.4 added Apple iWork .iwa support.
- 2021: 1.0.5 fixed stdin framing data handling and installed snunzip and snzcat by default.

### Related projects

- snzip is built around Snappy and interoperates with several Snappy file conventions, including the official framing format, Hadoop-Snappy, raw Snappy, and older snappy-java formats.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/kubo/snzip#readme>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubo/snzip/master/NEWS>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** snzip
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - snzip: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sn/snzip/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Archive and compression packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/archive-compression-tools/) - Matched archive or compression metadata.
- [gzip](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gzip/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: archive, cli, compression, decompression, system.
- [lunzip](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lunzip/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: archive, cli, compression, decompression, system.
- [clzip](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/clzip/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: archive, cli, compression, system.
- [crabz](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/crabz/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compression, decompression, system.
- [lizard](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lizard/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compression, decompression, system.
- [lz4](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lz4/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compression, decompression, system.
- [lzfse](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lzfse/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compression, decompression, system.
- [lzip](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lzip/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compression, decompression, system.
- [ouch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ouch/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: archive, cli, compression, decompression, system.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/snzip.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/snzip.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph