From 613e1713186c9864fa1222c0cdc67dd668cff493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mtonsmann <marcus@tonsmann.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:44:47 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] pigz: add directory compression example (#3139)

---
 pages/common/pigz.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pages/common/pigz.md b/pages/common/pigz.md
index 81c37d881..2ea8a1be5 100644
--- a/pages/common/pigz.md
+++ b/pages/common/pigz.md
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
 
 `pigz -0 -p{{4}} {{filename}}`
 
+- Compress a directory using tar:
+
+`tar cf - {{path/to/directory}} | pigz > {{filename}}.tar.gz`
+
 - Decompress a file:
 
 `pigz -d {{archive.gz}}`