Command-line tool

pigz

brew/pigz

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Parallel gzip

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install pigz

Linux

brew install pigz

Compress a file with default options

pigz path/to/file

Compress a file using the best compression method

pigz -9 path/to/file

Compress a file using no compression and 4 processors

pigz -0 -p 4 path/to/file

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