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 -p4 path/to/file

• decompress a file:

pbzip2 --decompress path/to/compressed_file.bz2

• Display help:

pbzip2 -h