pigz Command Examples

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|--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}}

• List the contents of an archive:

pigz {{[-l|--list]}} {{archive.tar.gz}}