pbzip2 Command Examples

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