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What is the fastest compression method for a large number of files?
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I need to compress a directory with around 350,000 fairly small files that amount to about 100GB total. I am using OSX and am currently using the standard "Compress" tool that converts this directory into a .zip file. Is there a faster way to do this?
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For directories I'd use a piped to with max-compression. a simple way to go is, This works great if you don't intend to fetch small sets of files out of the archive and are just planning to extract the whole thing whenever/wherever required. Yet, if…
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