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Gzip all plain-text files #102
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Also, pro-tip: you can use pigz -9 -p 8 data.txt |
This would be useful to do in general. |
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It would be good if we compressed all plain-text files using
gzip
(any compression would probably be fine, but I likegzip
because it's ready-to-go on many systems and tools, and it probably works well-enough). Any commands that require an unzipped file can simply be rewritten to use a FIFO instead using process subtitution, e.g. the following:can be written as follows to use a FIFO:
my_program <(zcat data.txt.gz)
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