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Created August 20, 2018 22:48
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Compress a directory tree into a tarball using pigz
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 <folder to compress>"
exit
fi
NAME=`basename $1`
tar -c --use-compress-program=pigz -f $NAME.tar.gz $NAME
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