PIXZ(1)
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NAME
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pixz - parallel, indexed xz compressor

SYNOPSIS
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*pixz* ['OPTIONS'] ['INPUT' ['OUTPUT']]

DESCRIPTION
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pixz compresses and decompresses files using multiple processors. If the input looks like a tar(1) archive, it also creates an index of all the files in the archive. This allows the extraction of only a small segment of the tarball, without needing to decompress the entire archive.

OPTIONS
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By default, pixz uses standard input and output, unless 'INPUT' and 'OUTPUT' arguments are provided. If pixz is provided with input but no output, it will delete the input once it's done.

*-d*::
  Decompress, instead of compress.

*-t*::
  Force non-tarball mode. By default, pixz auto-detects tar data, and if found enters tarball mode.
  When compressing in non-tarball mode, no archive index will be created. When decompressing, fast extraction will not be available.

*-l*::
  List the archive contents. In tarball mode, lists the files in the tarball. In non-tarball mode, lists the blocks of compressed data.

*-x* 'PATH'::
  Extract certain members from an archive, quickly. All members whose path begins with 'PATH' will be extracted.

*-i* 'INPUT'::
  Use 'INPUT' as the input.

*-o* 'OUTPUT'::
  Use OUTPUT as the output.

*-#*::
  Set compression level, from -0 (lowest compression, fastest) to -9 (highest compression, slowest).

*-p* 'CPUS'::
  Set the number of CPU cores to use. By default pixz will use the number of cores on the system.

*-h*::
  Show pixz's online help.

EXAMPLES
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`pixz < myfile > myfile.xz`::

  Compress a file with pixz.

`pixz myfile`::

  Compress to myfile.pxz, removing the original.

`tar -Ipixz -cf output.tpxz directory`::

  Make tar use pixz for compression.

`pixz -x path/to/file < input.tpxz | tar x`::

  Extract one file from an archive, quickly.

AUTHOR
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pixz is written by Dave Vasilevsky.

RESOURCES
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The pixz homepage: <http://github.com/vasi/pixz/>

Source downloads: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pixz/files/>

COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Dave Vasilevsky. Use of this software is granted under the FreeBSD License.

SEE ALSO
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xz(1), tar(1)