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 -p4 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