pigz

Multithreaded zlib compression utility. More information: https://github.com/madler/pigz.

pigz path/to/file

pigz -9 path/to/file

pigz -0 -p4 path/to/file

tar cf - path/to/directory | pigz > path/to/file.tar.gz

pigz -d archive.gz

pigz -l archive.tar.gz