compress a folder to tar.gz compression code example

Example: compress folder in tar.gz unix

#Compress a folder in tar.gz format
tar -zcvf final_archive.tar.gz folder_to_compress/

#Multicore compression using pigz (can be installed with: conda install -c anaconda pigz)
tar cf - ./folder_to_compress/ | pigz -9 -p NPROC > final_archive.tar.gz