TecMint published a guide about compressing files with the Pigz Tool in Linux.

How to Compress Files Faster with Pigz Tool in Linux

Written by Mark Adler, Pigz is an acronym for Parallel Implementation of GZip. It’s a nifty compression tool that helps you compress files with blazing fast speeds. As an improvement of the good old gzip utility, it leverages multiple cores and processors to compress data. This guide shines more light on Pigz and takes you through how to use the utility to compress files in Linux systems.

How to Compress Files Faster with Pigz Tool in Linux