Compression

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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

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