pigz

Multithreaded zlib compression utility. More information: https://github.com/madler/pigz.

• Compress a file with default options:
  pigz {{path/to/file}}
• Compress a file using the best compression method:
  pigz -9 {{path/to/file}}
• Compress a file using no compression and 4 processors:
  pigz -0 -p{{4}} {{path/to/file}}
• Compress a directory using tar:
  tar cf - {{path/to/directory}} | pigz > {{path/to/file}}.tar.gz
• Decompress a file:
  pigz -d {{archive.gz}}
• List the contents of an archive:
  pigz -l {{archive.tar.gz}}