Compress folder using pigz without tar

Question

pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.

But this tool is used only to compress a single file.

How i can manage it to compress folders too from source code: http://www.zlib.net/pigz/pigz-2.3.3.tar.gz

Or any other idea ... but without using TAR since i want use it too in windows os.

Solution

PigZ will only compress single files. You will need to use an archiver to collect the files into a single file.

You can use ZIP with no compression (-0) as an archiver, then pipe the output to PigZ for parallel compression.

Comments

[Creative Man]

How i can do that on windows for example ? about archiving file from command line and send output to pigz ?

[user2183032]

Check out: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb417343.aspx Specifically: The following command stores files in the cabinet with no compression: cabarc –m NONE n mycab.cab <files to arcive> Then run pigz on the cab file. Can easily be done in a BATCH file.

[schweik]

@user2183032: Please, can you closely specify the idea to pipe output of zip -0 to pigz -K to reach the zip archive, which can be open in MS-Windows as virtual folder? I tried many option combiantion, but never got the compatible archive.