pigz — Multithreaded zlib compression utility. More information: <https://manned.org/pigz>.

Compress a file with default options

pigz {{path/to/file}}

Compress a file using the best compression method

pigz {{[-9|--best]}} {{path/to/file}}

Compress a file using no compression and 4 processors

pigz -0 {{[-p|--processes]}} {{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|--decompress]}} {{archive.gz}}