.functions: Improve `targz`

* Only use `zopfli` when it’s available and if the `.tar` file is smaller than 50 MB.
* Use `pigz` instead of `gzip` when it’s available.
* Always exclude `.DS_Store` files when creating a tarball.

Closes #199.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/.functions b/.functions
index da26384..c16972c 100644
--- a/.functions
+++ b/.functions
@@ -26,18 +26,32 @@ function cdf() { # short for `cdfinder`
 	cd "$(osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to POSIX path of (insertion location as alias)')"
 }
 
-# Create a .tar.gz archive, using `zopfli` or `gzip` for compression
+# Create a .tar.gz archive, using `zopfli`, `pigz` or `gzip` for compression
 function targz() {
-	if zopfli > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+	local tmpFile="${@}.tar"
+	tar -cvf "${tmpFile}" --exclude=".DS_Store" "${@}" || return 1
+
+	size=$(
+		stat -f"%z" "${tmpFile}" 2> /dev/null; # OS X `stat`
+		stat -c"%s" "${tmpFile}" 2> /dev/null # GNU `stat`
+	)
+
+	local cmd=""
+	if (( size < 52428800 )) && hash zopfli 2> /dev/null; then
+		# the .tar file is smaller than 50 MB and Zopfli is available; use it
 		cmd="zopfli"
 	else
-		cmd="gzip"
+		if hash pigz 2> /dev/null; then
+			cmd="pigz"
+		else
+			cmd="gzip"
+		fi
 	fi
-	local tmpFile="${1}.tar"
-	tar -cvf "${tmpFile}" "${1}" &&
-	"${cmd}" "${tmpFile}" &&
-	rm "${tmpFile}" 2> /dev/null &&
-	echo "${tmpFile}.gz created successfully (compressed using \`${cmd}\`)."
+
+	echo "Compressing .tar using \`${cmd}\`…"
+	"${cmd}" -v "${tmpFile}" || return 1
+	[ -f "${tmpFile}" ] && rm "${tmpFile}"
+	echo "${tmpFile}.gz created successfully."
 }
 
 # Determine size of a file or total size of a directory