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Why not just use GNU parallel? `parallel gzip ::: file1 file2` I wish there was a standard for this type of stuff. So that an app will check for existing chil

Why not just use GNU parallel? `parallel gzip ::: file1 file2` I wish there was a standard for this type of stuff. So that an app will check for existing child spawns and act accordingly (IPC).

0x0 10y ago
That doesn't help if you have only one big file or stream.
- ole_tange 10y ago
  cat bigfile | parallel --pipe -k gzip > out.gz parallel --pipepart -a bigfile -k gzip > out.gz The last is faster.