Examples of using the vxcompress command

The following command compresses the file1 file, using the default algorithm and strength of gzip-6:

$ vxcompress file1

The following command recursively compresses all files below the dir1 directory, using the gzip algorithm at the highest strength (9):

$ vxcompress -r -t gzip-9 dir1

The following command compresses the file2 file and all files below the dir2 directory, using the gzip algorithm at strength 3, while limiting the vxcompress command to a single thread and reducing the scheduling priority:

$ vxcompress -r -t gzip-3 file2 dir1

The following command displays the results of compressing the file1 file in human-friendly units:

$ vxcompress -L file1
%Comp   Physical    Logical  %Exts  Alg-Str  BSize  Filename
  99%       1 KB     159 KB   100%   gzip-6  1024k  file1

The following command uncompresses the file1 file:

$ vxcompress -u file1