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Created July 3, 2014 02:31
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#Parallel Compression based on your number of cores.
function xzv() {
THREADS=`grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l`;
for file in $*; do
pv -s `stat -c%s $file` < $file | pxz -q -T $THREADS > $file.xz ;
done;
}
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