gzip

gzip

Manual page and help for the linux gzip command. Gzip compresses files using Lempel-Ziv encoding (LZ77).

zip (linux command)

The manual page and help for the zip linux command. Zip is a compression and file compression program for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS / 2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh. It is similar to the combination of tar (1) and compress (1) UNIX commands and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz's ZIP program for MSDOS).

How to compress files much faster with pigz

botond published March 2019, 02, Thu - 14:08 time
Unfortunately, the more common compression programs work on only one thread, so they can't take advantage of today's modern, multi-core processors. In this description, we will learn about the pigz program, which can be used to run the compression process on multiple threads, thereby taking advantage of all the processor cores.