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Compression and decompression with tar and pigz (parallel gzip)

To create a tape archive and compress with pigz:

tar cf - paths-to-archive | pigz -9 -p 32 > archive.tar.gz

To decompress with pigz and unarchive:

pigz -dc archive.tar.gz | tar xf -

Most importantly, never forget that we all struggle with syntax and code and a break can be imperative from time to time!