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pbzip2

A parallel implementation of the bzip2 file compressor. See also: bzip2, tar. More information: https://manned.org/pbzip2.

• Compress a file:

pbzip2 {{path/to/file}}

• Compress a file using the specified number of processors:

pbzip2 -p{{4}} {{path/to/file}}

• Compress in combination with tar (options can be passed to pbzip2):

tar -cf {{path/to/compressed_file}}.tar.bz2 {{[-I|--use-compress-program]}} "pbzip2 {{-option1 -option2 ...}}" {{path/to/file}}

• Decompress a file:

pbzip2 {{[-d|--decompress]}} {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

• Display help:

pbzip2 {{[-h|--help]}}