Comments on: File Compression Testing https://www.krazyworks.com/file-compression-testing/ Networking, Systems Design, and Disaster Recovery Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:48:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.9 By: Abbas https://www.krazyworks.com/file-compression-testing/comment-page-1/#comment-278415 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:48:01 +0000 https://www.krazyworks.com/?p=151545#comment-278415 informative

]]> By: Randy Zagar https://www.krazyworks.com/file-compression-testing/comment-page-1/#comment-278413 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 04:28:30 +0000 https://www.krazyworks.com/?p=151545#comment-278413 I’m probably going to stick with “pigz” as my gzip / zip replacement, since it’s explicitly designed to use multiple cores.

One thing I’ve done with parallel is effectively replace xargs with xargs(){parallel –will-cite $*}. I have my bashrc test to see if parallel is installed and have it replace xargs.

It definitely speeds up things like “find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum”.

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