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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}}

  • [d]ecompress a file:

pbzip2 --decompress {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

  • Display help:

pbzip2 -h