[Gllug] tar -jcvf

[Michael-John Turner]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 03:54:03PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Does anyone know of a program similar to tar, but that can use more
> than one CPU at a time?

Instead of using the "j" parameter to tar you could pbzip2[1] and pipe
tar's output to it.

[1] http://compression.ca/pbzip2/

-mj
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