pbzip2

A parallel implementation of the bzip2 file compressor. tldr-pages

On several platforms

Several platforms

Compress a file

pbzip2 path/to/fileIdentify

Compress a file using the specified number of processors

pbzip2 -p4 path/to/fileIdentify

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

tar -cf path/to/compressed_file.tar.bz2 --use-compress-program "pbzip2 -option1 -option2 ..." path/to/fileIdentify

-cCreate toybox

-ftar FILE (default -) toybox

Decompress a file

pbzip2 --decompress path/to/compressed_file.bz2Identify

Display help

pbzip2 --helpIdentify