pxz(1)
Parallel LZMA compressor compatible with XZ.
SYNOPSIS
pxz [
options]... [
file]...
DESCRIPTION
pxz
is a compression utility that takes advantage of running
XZ compression simultaneously on different parts of an input file on
multiple cores and processors. This significantly speeds up compression time.
OPTIONS
- -v
-
Be verbose.
- -h, --help
-
Display help.
- -f, --force
-
Force operation.
- -c, --stdout
-
Write results to standard output and don't delete input files.
- -k, --keep
-
Keep (don't delete) input files.
- -T, --threads
-
Maximal number of threads to run simultaneously.
- -D, --context-size
-
Context size per one thread specified as a multiple of dictionary size for active compression level.
- -V, --version
-
Display version of PXZ.
EXAMPLES
- pxz file1 file2
-
Compress file1 and file2 to file1.xz and file2.xz using default settings.
- pxz -T4 file1
-
Compress file1 with default compression and maximum of 4 threads.
- pxz -k -9 file1
-
Use maximal compression and keep the original file1, use default number of threads.
- pxz -f -T4 file1
-
Compress file with default compression and with 4 threads.
- pxz -kvf -3 -T8 file1
-
Use -3 compression, keep the original file, use 8 threads and show progress.
- tar Oc dir1 | pxz -D 12 -cv - > dir1.tar.xz
-
Move dir1 into tar, then compress it with the context of 12 sizes of dictionary
per thread, show progress and write result to dir1.tar.xz.
