May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Manually specifying the number of CPUs
The -p option specifies the number of CPU cores to use. This is useful if automatic detection fails or you need cores free for other jobs:
pbzip2 -p4 myfile.tar
This will tell pbzip2 to use 4 CPUs.