lrztar

A wrapper for lrzip to simplify compression of directories. tldr-pages

On Linux

Linux

Archive a directory with tar, then compress

lrztar path/to/directoryIdentify

Archive a directory with tar, then compress with ZPAQ (extreme compression, but very slow)

lrztar --zpaq path/to/directoryIdentify

Specify the output file

lrztar --outfile path/to/file path/to/directoryIdentify

Override the number of processor threads to use

lrztar --threads 8 path/to/directoryIdentify

Force overwriting of existing files

lrztar --force path/to/directoryIdentify