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multithreaded archiving with pigz

multithreaded archiving with pigz

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FILE COMPRESSION WITH A MULTI-THREAD ARCHIVER UNDER LINUX Fast and efficient archiving: Extract everything to the /target/dir directory using the multi-threaded archiver unpigz: Preamble Not everyone knows that there are analogs of gzip and gzip2 with SMP support that generate archives fully compatible…

tar with examples

tar with examples

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Creating an archive using the tar command Without compression: tar cvf files.tar dir/ To use gzip compression, add the z flag, and for bzip2 compression, use the j flag. tar cvzf files.tar.gz dir/ gzip and bzip2: bzip2 works slower than gzip,…