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=== tar.gz with pigz ===
 
=== tar.gz with pigz ===

Latest revision as of 10:19, 10 October 2011

Fast GZIP compression with pigz on multiple processors / cores

Pigz is a parallel implementation of gzip. The functionality should be the same.

tar.gz with pigz

Really easy:

tar -c * | pigz > file.tar.gz

Decompression:

pigz -dc file.tar.gz | tar xf -

pigz project page