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GeekCoder
GeekCoder

Reputation: 25

Use all cores when tar and splitting

I'm trying to make my tar command to use all cores (8), I got it working when I pack into a single pack like this: tar -I pigz -cf packed.tar.gz folder/. It is working as it should, it uses all cores.

But when I need to pack into multiply files I can't get it to use all cores, this is my command: tar cvzf - folder/ | split --bytes=4GB - packed.tar.gz. How can I make this command to use all cores and not only one?

Thanks for all inputs.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3310

Answers (1)

Cyrus
Cyrus

Reputation: 88766

With multithreaded file compression tool pigz:

tar -I pigz -cvf - folder/ | split --bytes=4GB - packed.tar.gz

Upvotes: 2

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