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Why doesn't parallelized gzip get more attention? For larger files, it can be quite a pain to see a multicore machine sit mostly idle. Something like this works pretty well, but I've never seen it done outside of my own stuffs:

split -l1000000 --filter='gzip > $FILE.gz' <(zcat large_fille.txt.gz)




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