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# pigz
> Multithreaded zlib compression utility.
- Compress a file with default options:
`pigz {{filename.ext}}`
- Compress a file using compression method [1-9] and number of processors [-pN]:
`pigz -9 -p8 {{filename.ext}}`
- Decompress a file:
`pigz -d {{archive.gz}}`
- List the contents of an archive:
`pigz -l {{archive.tar.gz}}`
- Create an compressed archive when piped with tar:
`tar cvf - {{directory/to/archive}} | pigz -9 -p8 > {{archive.tar.gz}}`