cli-tarHow can I use tar gzip to create a multithreaded archive?
Tar gzip can be used to create a multithreaded archive by passing the -I or --use-compress-program option to the tar command. This option allows you to specify an external compression program such as pigz which is a multithreaded gzip implementation.
For example, to create a tar gzip archive using 4 threads you would run the following command:
tar -cvf archive.tar.gz -I pigz -p 4 <files-to-archive>This command will create an archive named archive.tar.gz using 4 threads to compress the specified <files-to-archive>.
The parts of this command are:
tar- The tar command which is used to create archives-cvf- Options to create a tar archive (-c), use a file as the archive (-f) and create the archive in verbose mode (-v)archive.tar.gz- The name of the archive to be created-I pigz- Option to specify an external compression program (in this casepigz)-p 4- Option to specify the number of threads to use for compression (in this case 4)<files-to-archive>- The files to be archived
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