On 07/08/2014 12:48 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:56:08PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> On 07/07/2014 10:54 PM, Markus Falb wrote: >>> >>> On 07.Jul.2014, at 14:53, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote: >>> >>>> On 07/07/2014 02:35 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I am inclined to use xz utils as opposed to 7zip since 7zip comes from a >>>>> 3rd party repo. >>>>> >>>> >>>> check needs to be made if xz supports multitrheading like pk7zip. >>> >>> No, it think it does not. >>> There is a threads option but in the manpage is stated >>> >>> ... >>> Multithreaded compression and decompression are not implemented yet, so this option has no effect for >>> now. >>> ... >>> >> OH, that's a bummer. Thanks, now i do not have to waste time on >> experimenting. > > Have you seen pigz? similar to gzip but multithreaded. > "will compress files in place, adding the suffix '.gz'." OP and I want to save a lot of space while compressing large number of almost similar files. p7zip does it for me: On 07/03/2014 10:50 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > So, 742 files that uncompressed have 179 MB, compressed ocupy only 452 > KB, which is only 0.2% of original size, 442 TIMES smaller -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant