---
name: "pgzf"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wtdbg2"
version: "2.5-10"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pgzf"
---

# pgzf(1)

Parallel gzip file IO

## NAME

pgzf - Parallel gzip file IO

## SYNOPSIS

**pgzf** \[*options*\] *file1* \[*file2* ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

PGZF: Parallel gzip file IO Author: Jue Ruan \<ruanjue@gmail.com\> Version: 1.1

## OPTIONS

- **-d**

  Decompress mode

- **-t** \<int\>

  Number of threads, \[8\]

- **-f**

  Force to overwrite

**-o** \<string\> Output file name, support directory

- **-x**

  Delete input files after done

- **-b** \<int\>

  Block size in MB, 1 ~ 256 \[16\]

- **-l** \<int\>

  Compress level, 1-9, see gzip, \[6\]

- **-h**

  Show this document

- **-V**

  Print version information and exit

### File format:

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  PGZF fellows standard GZIP format (rfc1952), and is blocked compressed. It defines two TAGs in each GZIP header, ZS: block size, ZX: random access index. Program pgzf can decompress .pgzf and .gz files. When decompressing .gz files, pgzf is in fact a buffered gzip reader. Also, .pgzf files can be decompressed by program gzip.

In plan to support random access

## AUTHOR

 This manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution and\
  can be used for any other usage of the program.